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Background Information: Today’s Featured Picture, “Cognoscenti in a Room hung with Pictures,” comes from The National Gallery Collection. It  is an oil painting on oak and was probably painted in 1620. It may be the work of… Read More…

Background Information: Today’s Featured Picture, “Music,” comes from The Bridgeman Art Library Archive. The artist is John William Godward, an English painter from the end of the Pre-Raphaelite / Neo-Classicist era. This work represents a romantic 19th and early 20th-century music… Read More…

New Year (Spring Festival). (2009). In Berkshire Encyclopedia of China: Modern and Historic Views of the World’s Newest and Oldest Global Power. Retrieved from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/berkchina/new_year_spring_festival

Today’s Featured Picture was chosen to remind us all of the beauty of snow! It has been a snowless winter here in New England, and we are still awaiting our first big snowfall. Enjoy today’s snowy Featured Picture!… Read More…

Background Information: Today’s Featured Picture, “A Bather,” comes from The Bridgeman Art Library Archive. The artist is Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, a painter and designer born in Kiev, Ukraine. Malevich studied in Moscow, Russia and was one of the earliest pioneers of pure… Read More…