For years, Claude Monet (1840–1926) resisted the siren song of Venice. When he finally made the journey, the lagoon city revitalized his painting career, his time in Italy preparing him to complete ...
One day in 1871, legend has it, a French artist named Claude Monet walked into a food shop in Amsterdam, where he had gone to escape the Prussian siege of Paris. There he spotted some Japanese prints ...