12-07-18 A wealthy matron（主妇，保姆） is so proud of a valuable antique vase that she decides to have her bedroom painted the same color as the vase. Several painters try to match the shade, but none comes close enough to satisfy the eccentric（古怪的） wo...

10-10-26 A wealthy matron（主妇） is so proud of a valuable antique（古老的） vase that she decides to have her bedroom painted the same color as the vase. Several painters try to match the shade, but none comes close enough to satisfy the eccentric（古怪的...

10-07-19 Hogarth The great painter was asked, one day to paint a picture of Pharaoh crossing the Red Sea. A little while after the picture had been commenced, a hitch arose over the fee, and Hogarth found that he would have to complete the commission for abo...

10-06-23 A self portrait by French painter Edouard Manet has been sold for more than 22m - a record price for the artist's work. 法国画家爱德华马奈的一副自画像以2200万英镑的价格成交，刷新了该画家作品的最高成交记录。 The self portrait was painted in 1878 The...

09-09-30 Mystic, painter and Nobel laureate for literature, Rabindranath Tagore was a prolific writer (3,000 poems, 2,000 songs, 8 novels, 40 volumes of essays and short stories, 50 plays), who drew inspiration both from his native Bengal and from English li...