The Renaissance brought fresh excitement about the physical world.  Art awoke from its long medieval fixation on the afterlife, and bega...

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Ralph Barton was one of the most prominent illustrators of the 1920s.  Most of his illustrations were done with a simple line, yet if you ...

If a man wishes to be worthy of the best that a woman has to offer, he must have the patience to feed her a pomegranate, one seed at a time...

The poet Robert Frost understood that freedom is not the absence of constraints.  "You have freedom," he said, "when you'...

You probably don't know the work of illustrator Charles Sarka but you probably should. Sarka (1879-1960) started out as an appren...