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Arts & Literature
Welcome To Arts & Literature where we try to answer questions of a scholarly nature.If you are looking for information about books then head to Books & Authors. The Arts section covers all sorts of topics like theatre, exhibitions, paintings and much more.
I'm thinking of entering a painting in a local art competition for the first time, and one of the requirements is that it must be "framed and mirror plated". I've worked out what mirror plates are,...
Anyone in it - or has been in the past ? If so, is it a good choir to join (that is if you pass your audition!) I don't mean their reputation which is excellent, but as a group of people, are they a...
I read two books that appeared to be part of a series about 5 women who come very diverse backgrounds. The books dealt with each woman's life during an event or crisis. The characters included a woman...
A children's book about a class of children who are the only class in school as all other classes are on a trip. Escaped prisoners take the whole class hostage, except for two boys who have pretended...
I read a children's book in the 1970's. iI seemd to be set on the moors with a lot of bog-holes, where a person could fall in and drown. The main character is a boy who is a loner. I emember him...
A children's story set in a primary school. Only one class is in school on the last day of term as all the others are on a trip. Two escaped prisoners brake into the school and take the class hostage,...
Where is Tintoretto's painting "Paradise" exhibited please?
when her leading role in an amateur theatrical fails spectacularly, this american wife and mother grows bitter and mean
I am reading this for my A/S Level and am about halfway through. PLEASE PLEASE tell me that something good happens. It has to be the most depressing, disturbing book I have ever read! Is there light...
We have an oil painting - bequeathed to us because nobody liked it I think - which is of a rural scene, a pond and trees. It certainly seems quite old, Victorian I'd say at a guess, and has the...
in the aeneid, aeneas first wife is?
I have a couple of pieces with a crown mark and the initials NW YW. I can't find anything out about this mark, even on the Potteries website. Does anyone have any ideas where I can look please? Thanks...
Cosmonauts from Earth were falling to death into the cracks that constantly opened and closed on the surface of this planet. Local people survived only because they were able to count only up to...
are the books 'Elisha's Eyes' and 'Toby and the Secrets of the Trees' the same book but with different titles??
Can someone help me locate a book I read a loong time ago. It's about anorexia nervosa. It was a novel. It centered around a very beautiful girl who got the idea that she was fat. She started dieting...
Romance/drama set in Rockies & Chicago the protaganist is called Fancy set in the mid to late 1800's
Hello people I am trying to cast a part for the following: Freya is a woman on a mission. Using her Tarot cards she selects six people and takes them to a yoga retreat where they encounter revelations...
I'm looking for a childrens book that i had when i was little, i cant remember the name of it or who it was by, but vaguely remember it being along the lines of a teddy bears picnic. The bear takes...
I have a reproduction of a Spitzweg painting... 8632a Stagecoach. It was framed by Catalda Fine Arts, Inc. in New York, NY. It is old but does it have any value? Thanks
2. ?How are the flower, the frost, and the sun personified in this poem? What kind of person does each seem to be compared to? 3. ?A pun is a play on words, based on the multiple meanings of a single...
