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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Self-Portrait with Her Daughter, Julie1786
Oil on wood, 105 x 84 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

 Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.  ~George Bernard Shaw

Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Cleopatra: Captivating in Life and in Death

On this day in 30 B.C., it is believed Cleopatra succumbed to death by her own hand. Throughout the centuries, legends claimed she received the bite of an asp, although recent investigation into her death suggests she drank a poisonous concoction. Her great beauty, tumultuous life, and tragic death have provided art and literature with an abundance of subject matter.



GUIDO CAGNACCI
The Death of Cleopatra
1658
Oil on canvas



MICHELANGELO
Cleopatra
1533-34
Black chalk on paper, 230 x 180 mm

PIETER PAUWEL RUBENS
Cleopatra
c. 1615
Oil on oak, 130 x 74 cm

Eugène DELACROIX  Cleopatra and the Peasant
1838
Oil on canvas

Johann Liss
The Death of Cleopatra
1622-24
Oil on canvas

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Albrecht DÜRER
The Little Owl
1506
Watercolour on paper

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul - and you answer.  ~Terri Guillemets

Albrecht Dürer

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Antoine Berjon
Still-Life with a Basket of Flowers1814
Oil on canvas, 66 x 50 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Art is like a border of flowers

 along the course of civilization. 

~Lincoln Steffens

Antoine Berjon

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Vermeer
Woman with a Pearl Necklace (detail)1662-64
Oil on canvas

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.  ~Schumann

Start your Morning Off Right!

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.  ~Lewis Carroll


Sir John Tenniel, a British political cartoonist, was the original illustrator for Lewis Carroll's books Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

Now THAT'S a footstool I like!

This past Saturday, my husband Russell and I attended to League of NH Craftsmen Fair at Sunapee, and he bought me this beautiful little footstool for my studio!