"The Embrace" by Egon Schiele
"The Embrace" by Egon Schiele
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Oswald Spengler on modern man's defencelessness against spiritual artillery
Today we are so defenceless against the effects of this spiritual artillery that scarcely anyone is able to win that inner detachment which is necessary to grasp the full monstrousness of the spectacle Oswald Spengler on what is still our own day
The Conservatory Years of Sergei Prokofiev, from Admission at 13 to Graduation in 1914
At 13, Sergei Prokofiev became a student of the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire – and it was a real breakthrough! His talent was noticed by Alexander Glazunov, who himself suggested that the boy should enter the Conservatoire at once. And what proved decisive at the entrance examinations was the opinion of Nikolai
Vigée Le Brun's portrait of her daughter Julie to be sold at Christie's in New York in 2027
Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, portrait of the artist's daughter, Julie, as a bather In 2027 this painting will be offered at auction at Christie's in New York
Leonid Andreyev in “Two Letters” on a childhood craving for gingerbread and happiness that comes too late
When I was a boy of seven or eight, I had a passion for the cheap mint gingerbreads sold on our quiet street, in a little hole-in-the-wall shop; for some reason they were called "zhamki", and for a kopeck you were given two of them.