‘La Veuve’.Demachy, Robert
The International Chopin Piano competition is known for its incredible power to turn unknown prodigies into pianists of global standing. Other than the actual prize, these young artists win a schedule packed with concerts in the most prestigious halls in the world and an unparalleled opportunity to bask in the spotlight for decades.
Such a beautiful place! www.huntington.org/
E.M. Forster, British novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic. His fame rests largely on his novels Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). His writing style was much freer and more colloquial than that of his Victorian predecessors, and his novels show a continuity with the Romantic tradition.
Children's picture book art for Please Bury Me in the Library by J. Patrick Lewis (Author), Kyle M. Stone (Illustrator) www.kylemstoneart.com
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The Klementinum library, a beautiful example of Baroque architecture, was first opened in 1722 as part of the Jesuit university, and houses over 20,000 books. It was voted as one of the most beautiful and majestic libraries in the world by our readers!
In Chinguetti, an ancient African city that was once a stopover for old trade routes in the Sahara Desert, shifting sands are threatening to bury history.
Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, the Pope watching from far below.
A brief survey of fictional books. I’m soon to move across the country, and surveying my bookcases—the three in the living room and the three in the bedroom, plus the unshelved piles that crop up from any flat surface—fills me with dread. The only cure, I’ve found, is to let my thoughts wander to another, […]
The Tianjin Binhai Library by MVRDV features terraced bookshelves that create an interior, topographical, landscape whose contours reach out and wrap around the facade.
My blog focuses on the art and artists of vintage children's picture books, mainly from 1950's through 1980's.
Image taken from: Title: "The Changing Year: being poems and pictures of life and nature. Illustrations by A. Barraud, etc" Author(s): British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 11602.h.7" Page: 67 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication) Place of publication: London (England) Date of publication: 1882 Publisher: Cassell Type of resource: Monograph Language(s): English Physical description: 192 pages (8°) Explore this item in the British Library’s catalogue: 003996433 (physical copy) and 014832660 (digitised copy) (numbers are British Library identifiers) Other links related to this image: - View this image as a scanned publication on the British Library’s online viewer (you can download the image, selected pages or the whole book) - Order a higher quality scanned version of this image from the British Library Other links related to this publication: - View all the illustrations found in this publication - View all the illustrations in publications from the same year (1882) - Download the Optical Character Recognised (OCR) derived text for this publication as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) - Explore and experiment with the British Library’s digital collections The British Library community is able to flourish online thanks to freely available resources such as this. You can help support our mission to continue making our collection accessible to everyone, for research, inspiration and enjoyment, by donating on the British Library supporter webpage here. Thank you for supporting the British Library.
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What is a perfect society, and what’s the best kind of utopianism? Terry Eagleton looks at future thinking and concludes that our system is run by dreamers who call themselves realists
From history and the arts to travel and fashion, we take a broad look at culture in the context of sustainability.
So if you’ve been following me, you are pretty aware of my love of libraries. And I decided to do a post on my favorite fictional libraries. After all: So here we go, my top 13 Favorite Ficti…
