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The Lovers, 1928
Marc Chagall (1887 – 1985), French (born Russian)

"Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary." (by Oscar Wilde)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Memories of Christmas
Antonio García Mencía (1853 - 1915), Spain

Merry Christmas! We hope you have a safe and relaxing holiday season!

For many countries, Christmas is the biggest holiday of the year. It is so embedded in our culture that it is no longer just a religious holiday, but a cultural and commercial one as well. It wasn’t always that way, though – people didn’t start celebrating Christmas on a large scale until the 1300s. Christmas itself has also changed a lot since then. It used to be more like a festival, almost like a carnival. The tradition we all know today didn’t come around until the 1800s

Lovers on a Moonlight Lane, 1873
John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836 – 1893), British

John Grimshaw is considered to be one of the best painters of moonlit scenes. Instead of painting directly from nature, he used photographs as a basis, to veil his imperfect knowledge of perspective.