David James – Page 2 – 5-Minute History

The Art of Autumn

Autumn is a time of contemplation. A time to reflect on the changing of the seasons from growth to decay.

At the end of World War I, the world desperately needed a scapegoat to help come to terms with four

Famed for his paintings of bustling 19th-century Parisian life, pretty women and sensual nudes, Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s eye for beauty captured the

Born in Nymphenburg Palace—the “Castle of the Nymphs”—in Munich, Bavaria, and growing up in the Gothic Revival fantasy castle of

Those are the gruesome words of Bill “the Butcher” Cutting, played by Daniel Day-Lewis in the Martin Scorsese film Gangs

Beautiful places, beautiful people, beautiful clothes—Francois Flameng loved to paint them all. Born in an art studio in Paris in

Skagen is a village in the northernmost part of Denmark. From the late 1870s until the turn of the century,

Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist, best known as the author of The Jungle Book. He

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer. To many of us, he is simply the

First published in 1860 by Florence Hartley and now available for free in the public domain, The Ladies’ Book of