Month October 2018

Camille Pissarro Camille Pissarro was a French Impressionist artist who was born on July 10, 1830 in Charlotte Amalie, US Virgin Islands. Pissarro was the third son of a French Jewish merchant of Portuguese descent, Abraham Gabriel Pissarro, and Rachel Manzana-Pomie,… Continue Reading →

Winslow Homer Winslow Homer was born on February 24, 1836, in Boston, Massachusetts as the second of three children to Henrieta Benson and Charles Homer. At the age of 6, his family moved to Cambridge and was encouraged by his… Continue Reading →

Crap-tastic life Life during the Industrial Revolution was pretty rough for the average worker in the US and UK. Workers would work in factories for fourteen to sixteen hours a day for 6 days a week and would only be… Continue Reading →

Here Comes the Big Guy Big ideas can come from small places or so they say. On March 2, 1884, American engineer and classmate of Gustav Eiffel, William Le Baron Jenney received permission to build what would be the first… Continue Reading →

Jean-Antoine Watteau Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French Rococo painter born on October 10, 1684, in a Flemish town of Valenciennes. His father was a roof tiler and at a young age, he would be sensitive to mood changes but was… Continue Reading →

Research: EXTRA, EXTRA! More Books Coming Through! New Inventions The invention of the printing press was probably the most important invention in history when it came to communication and new ideas. Before the Gutenberg invented it, many books had to be… Continue Reading →

Learn what women were wearing during this period During the Renaissance, upper class women mainly wore gowns and long dresses with detachable sleeves. These dresses would be long enough to hang around the ankles and women would wear 3 or… Continue Reading →

Anthony van Dyck Anthony van Dyck was a prominent Dutch Baroque painter during the 17th century. Van Dyck was born on March 22, 1599, in Antwerp and was the seventh of 12 children of a silk merchant Frans van Dyck…. Continue Reading →