Louvre: Largilliere – Family Portrait

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Sully wing – 2nd floor – Watteau – Room 36 Largilliere has arranged his painting, conventionally, in a rural setting, without even worrying about the improbability of showing his wife and daughter, dressed in their finery and adorned more for … Read More

Louvre paintings: Italian school

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Italian School (Death of the Virgin, painting by Caravaggio) Italian painting is abundantly in painting at Louvre Museum, being represented, with around 1100 works, 600 of which are permanently exhibited. Among these are many masterpieces by the greatest painters, including … Read More

Philosophy of mind

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(Drawing (1894) describing the concept of phrenology by Friedrich Eduard Bilz (1842-1922) published in Das neue Naturheilverfahren (“The New Treatment with Naturopathy”) in an edition drawn for the 75th anniversary of this concept.) The philosophy of mind is the philosophical … Read More

Web technologies

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Web technologies are a set of technologies that make up and use of the World Wide Web (generally abbreviated Web) and its standards. The web was created in 1990 as an information sharing application and has become a platform in … Read More

The spirit of the sales

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A sale is an agreement by which the seller undertakes to deliver a good or service, and the buyer to pay it. In other words, a sale is the transaction by which a property or right held by a seller … Read More

Louvre: Leopold Robert – The Pilgrimage to the Madonna of the Arch

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This work is not currently visible in the rooms of the Museum In the prestigious frame of the Bay of Naples and following the shores of the Gulf, a joyous caravan returns from the legendary pilgrimage to the Madonna of … Read More

Buddhism

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(A statue of the Buddha in Vietnam) Buddhism is, according to the Western point of view, a religion (including a state religion) or a philosophy, or both, whose origins go back to India in the fifth century BC after the … Read More

Louvre: Terburg – The Concert

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This work is not currently visible in the rooms of the Museum We are undoubtedly in a rich middle class residence of Holland in the 17th century. The furniture is comfortable, and the carpet which covers the table was brought … Read More

Towards happiness, by Octave Mirbeau

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… My wife is pretty divinely: never more admirable eyes illuminated with more beauty a more delicious face; she is inexhaustibly good… I love her, she loves me; just six months ago today we were married. Only six months, is … Read More

Interdisciplinarity

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Interdisciplinarity is the art of making people or teams from different scientific disciplines work together. The interest is to enrich approaches and solutions by promoting creativity and serendipity, to facilitate the achievement of a common goal by confronting different approaches … Read More

Causality

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In philosophy, causality refers to the relationship of cause and effect. the cause, the correlate of the effect, is “what makes a thing do or act as it does”. This produces the effect; the causality is the “current relationship of … Read More

Louvre: H. Rigaud – Louis XIV (1638–1715)

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Sully wing – 2nd floor – The painters of Louis XIV – Room 34 In a rich house of a gentleman from Perpignan, the old Roussillois painter Guerra painted the wall of a terrace. Behind him, a child followed with … Read More

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