Poverty, from "Virtues and Vices"

Flemish tapestry. Series Human Redemption or Vices and Virtues. Vices lead Man to sin (Los Vicios conducen al Hombre al pecado). Second tapestry in the series (first of those kept ...

Flemish tapestry. Series Human Redemption or Vices and Virtues. Vices lead Man to sin (Los Vicios conducen al Hombre al pecado). Second tapestry in the series (first of those kept ...

Famous Composer ' s Widow in Poverty _x000D_ The Daily Express correspondent states that Frau Cosima Wagner of Bayreuth, Germany, widow of the famous composer is reported to be in...

Portrait of a man in a black top hat. He also wears a brown jacket and a black waistcoat. He is holding papers in both hands. Stamp at bottom left of page reads 'Bristol Paper' aro...

Tobit’s blindness has condemned him and his wife to a life of grinding poverty: his once expensive tabard is torn and tattered. When Anna comes home with a kid, a reward for her ha...

In 1899, Gauguin's mistress, Pahura, gave birth to a son, who gave the artist a new lease on life. After months of inaction due to poverty and ill health, Gauguin began to paint ag...

The most renowned sculptor of the nineteenth century, Auguste Rodin was revolutionary in his exploration of the human form’s expressive potential. His dynamic compositions, free ha...