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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Around 19th century, people of Istanbul used to have scribes to write or read their letters as they had very low literary knowledge. This oil-on-canvas painting shows one of those days. Artist Fausto Zonaro was born in Masi, which was in Austrian Empire, in 1854. He was very much interested in painting from the beginning and his parents decided to encourage his skill. After learning in a Fine arts Academy in Verona, he opened his own art school in Venice. But he was not fully happy with his way of life. He found the satisfaction in Istanbul. He attained the attention of aristocratic circles and started receiving works from them. Being pleased with his paintings, he got the title of court painter. Now we can […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The history of celebrating the Valentine’s Day on 14th February is dated far back in AD 269 when a real St Valentine was executed by a king for his religious claims. He tried to help the soldiers who were not married by baptizing them. It was the same jailer whose blind daughter got cured by the saint and later on due to the ignited faith in saint the whole family of the jailer got baptized by him. When the king got extremely displeased with him he ordered to execute St Valentine, but before the day he was killed he wrote a letter to the jailer’s daughter writing ‘Your Valentine’ at the bottom. It was the first valentine’s card and letter by the saint himself. It […]