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Théodore Géricault took for this contemporary subject the tragedy of the survivors of the French|French ship Medusa. It had founder|foundered off the ...

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was born into the ranks of the bourgeoisie|Parisian bourgeoisie on January 29, 1832. His Mother, Eugenie-Desir...

The Sleeping Gypsy1897 Henri Rousseau Oil on canvas A young gypsy, decked out in a striped coat of many colours|dress of many colors, sleeps in the sand...

Vignette Fri Jul 07 2000 at 19:25:11 The earliest part of the sixteenth century has been called the golden age of printing, the development of engraving lending a hand and the subsequent improvement in book illustration, with engraved or decorated title-pages as well as vignettes or headpieces or tailpieces in the text. As a “decorative design” they first appeared in 1751. The word was first borrowed from the diminutive of the Old French word vigne for vineyard and later became the French word vignette, both related to the root word vine. One who creates vignettes is called a vign...