Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Étienne Allegrain painting

Landscape with the Finding of Moses
by Étienne Allegrain (1644-1736)
French Artist
oil on canvas
34.6" x 45.3"

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Paintings of Gillis d'Hondecoeter

Cattle Resting in a Dune Landscape

Landscape

Mountainous Landscape

Paradise

Monday, January 28, 2013

Favorite Actress Showcase #9: Kate Hudson

The super cute and gorgeous Kate Hudson catapulted to fame with a memorable performance in the brilliant movie Almost Famous in 2000. She's gone on to appear in numerous hit movies since including How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days; Raising Helen; The Skeleton Key; Bride Wars; You, Me and Dupre; and Fool's Gold.



Friday, January 11, 2013

Literature Pick #41

The Whispering Spheres
by Russell Robert Winterbotham
A fantastical science fiction tale from the July 1941 issue of Comet.

Pastoral Landscape

Pastoral Landscape
by Alvan Fisher (1792-1863)




Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Literature Pick #40

The Lost World
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The masterful work of science fiction featuring the first appearance of Professor Challenger as he seeks a lost land where dinosaurs still live.

Alexandre Calame painting

Lake Lucerne (Symphonie en bleu)
By Alexandre Calame (1810-1864)
From Switzerland
1855 
70.5" x 96.1"

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

The Three Magi

The Three Magi
by Jacopo Bassano (1510–1592)
From Bassano del Grappa, Italy

Circa 1562
Oil on Canvas
36.2" x 46.5"

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Nativity by Taddeo Gaddi

Nativity
by Taddeo Gaddi (1290–1366)
Medieval Painter from Florence
Circa 1325
Tempera on Panel
14.2" x 14.6"
 

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Literature Pick #39

The Secret of Kralitz
by Henry Kuttner
From the October 1936 issue of Weird Tales, this is a macabre story set in the Cthulhu Mythos world created by H. P. Lovecraft.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Foothills of the Alps by Wolf Huber

Foothills of the Alps
by Wolf Huber (1485-1553)
1532
Watercolor
8.3" × 14.6"

Huber was born in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg (in modern-day Austria) and later moved to Passau in Lower Bavaria. He was an artist of the Danube School and his work shows the influence of Albrecht Dürer - he was also an architect, although none of his architectural work survives. In 1517 he became court painter to the Duke of Bavaria.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Literature Pick #38

Lost in the Future
by John Victor Peterson
A excellent science fiction short story about the perils of space travel from the January 1954 issue of Fantastic Universe.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Kao K'o-ming painting

Enlightenment After The Snowfall on the River
by Kao K'o-ming
Chinese artist
1035
Indian ink and color on silk

Monday, November 19, 2012

Literature Pick #37

The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall
by John Kendrick Bangs
A superb ghost story first published in Harper's Weekly Magazine on June 27, 1891 and then republished in the 1892 short story collection The Water Ghost and Others.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Gherardo Starnina painting

Two Seated Angels Making Music
by Gherardo Starnina
Artist born in Florence
 
Fragment of an alterpiece,  painted between 1400 and 1410

tempera on panel
18.8" × 28.3"