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Champollion: the Journey to Egypt
In 1828–1829, Champollion, the decoder of hieroglyphs, led an expedition of scholars and artists up the Nile to the reaches of the Nubian desert. During this journey through time and space, they...
Eugène Delacroix: Diary
The diary kept by Eugène Delacroix from 1822 to 1863 is one of the most interesting texts written by a painter, and reveals a great writer hidden behind the brilliant artist. His fluid, elegant, and...
Heloise and Abelard: Love Letters
In 12th-century France, the brilliant young philosophy teacher Abelard seduced his student Heloise. The pair eloped and had a passionate love affair, as physical as it was spiritual. Heloise's...
Vivant Denon: No Tomorrow
"I was madly in love with the Countess of...; I was twenty, and I was naive; she deceived me, I protested, she left me. I was naive, I pined for her; I was twenty, she forgave me: and as I was...