If there is one thing in the Gulf of Naples that can win over Mount Vesuvius the first impression of the traveler, it certainly is the sight of the island of Capri. Seen from the pier or the royal garden, the island looks like a colossal woman wrapped in a shroud.
One usually embarks from the shore of Sorrento, near the house …Read more »

The hand is divided into two parts: the male part and the female one.
The male part is at the north. The female part at the south.
The head line forms the separation between male and female, north and south.
The people of the north inevitably have to work, and it is inevitably too that progress, the result of hard work, comes to them. Should they …Read more »

Engraved after a lithograph by P. Gavarni

By Henri Beraldi

GAVARNI (Guillaume-Sulpice CHEVALLIER – He first signed his work Hippolyte Chevalier).
A mere article would hardly be adequate to encompass the work and the life of the artist who depicted the mores of the nineteenth century. We’ll simply try to give here essential biographical information and to outline the three phases in the evolution of Gavarni’s talent. Anyone willing to collect his work should get MM. Mahérault and Bocher’s catalogue.

Gavarni came to light relatively late, When he was already in his thirties. He was a Parisian, born 13 January 1804, rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes… Read full article on Paul Gavarni »

Engraved after a drawing by E. Marcelin

By Henri Beraldi

MARCELIN Émile (his real name was Émile PLANAT), 1825-1887. – From 1850 to 1870 he was, in Le Journal Amusant and L’Illustration at first, later in La Vie Parisienne, which he founded, the special cartoonist for humorous pages on stylish life. 1860 socialites, the Opera of rue Lepelletier and Les Italiens, first nights and parties, dances at the Tuileries and variety shows, feasts and pleasures, Baden and Trouville were his… Read full article on Émile Marcelin »