In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet. This title presents the story behind Carrington's observations of a mysterious explosion on the surface of the Sun and how his brilliant insight helped to usher in the modern era of astronomy.
What is a pyxis? Who was the Amasis Painter? How did Greek vases get their distinctive black and orange colours? This volume offers definitions and descriptions of these and many other Greek vase shapes, painters and techniques encountered in museum exhibitions and publications.
Excerpt from The Shadow of John WallaceThe ?at country is full of a subtle interest. On one hand are the farms and grass-lands by which the simple' folk upon the other, shut out by ?ats and low hills of sand, forever rolls the sea. There' is a mellow haziness' in the atmosphere, a harmony in form and color, a wonderful prevailing tone, which makes the pensive painter fancy him self once more among the sea-walls and dunes of Holland, while the happy colorist, who 'wanders in land among the ancient farmlands and comes back with sketches of gray wall flecked with the soft light and shade that filter greenly through willow trees,' de claims the landscape to be a piece taken out of the heart of Brittany.
In 1465, the Nevills must have thought they'd reached the pinnacle of power and influence in England. They had already lost a great deal for the Yorkist cause. Within six years, as the Wars of the Roses turned into one of the bloodiest periods of English history, they'd lose even more for the Lancastrians.