Burgundy Baron's Blog

Thomas Moran - my absolute favorite artist - here painted a wondrous, awe-invoking painting of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. 

I absolutely love the music of Ingrid Michaelson, I've been moved by every song of hers I've ever heard. Her music evokes emotion fr...

The Great Dome on Mercury by Arthur Leo Zagat From the April 1932 issue of Astounding Stories, this is a classic and exciting science fict...

George Inness is one of the true masters of American art and of the Tonalism style. Étretat, painted in 1875, shows off the sheer beauty of...

Mystery of the Yellow Room  by Gaston Leroux (1907)  A brilliant detective novel by the author of The Phantom of the Opera. This book truly...

       King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba by Konrad Witz ( 1435)

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the reme...

Out of the Fog by C. K. Ober The true story of a man's adventures at sea, his childhood in a 19th century New England fishing town, an...

Support to impoverished merchant. by Jan Goraj (circa 1502-1504, Poland)   Notes From Wikimedia Commons Painting from the Polyptych of St....

The Haunted Sentry Box of Porto Rico by Lewis Miller - a fantastic short story published in 1916.

The Book of Hunting by Gaston Phoebus - 15 th century artwork.

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea." - Francis Bacon

In the Orbit of Saturn by Roman Frederick Starzl Published in the October 1931 issue of Astounding Stories. This is pure, exciting scien...

The Hudson River School, an American variant of Romanticism, is perhaps my favorite style of painting. Thomas Cole was the fat...