The Brush Chronicles

Rilke on art-making

Notes on Letters to a Young Poet: Letter 1 - Part 1

Mar 3 • Arielle Sans

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November 2025

Rêverie N.3

Joyous minstrels once sang in the Sun

Nov 19, 2025 • Arielle Sans

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Rêverie N.2

Not even the highest hills can shelter my love

Nov 16, 2025 • Arielle Sans

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1

How to Renaissance

Here's how.

Nov 8, 2025 • Arielle Sans

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3

October 2025

Narcissus and Goldmund

Hesse on art theory and the Apollonian-Dionysian duality that shapes the human genius

Oct 29, 2025 • Arielle Sans

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2

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September 2025

Allégorie de l'été

I wrote something under the last rays of summer sun

Sep 23, 2025 • Arielle Sans

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2

August 2025

Behind Closed Drawers: The Bureau Secrétaire

King of desks!

Aug 30, 2025 • Arielle Sans

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5

2

The aesthete writes: Andrea de Mantegna & Isabella d'Este

The private correspondence series

Aug 13, 2025 • Arielle Sans

5

May 2025

K is for Kalos Kaghatos

And Kalos Kaghatos is for virtue

May 26, 2025 • Arielle Sans

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1

March 2025

In Praise of Order and Lights

Jacques Louis David: what is worth suffering for?

Mar 19, 2025 • Arielle Sans

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3

January 2025

Memories of Versailles

Visit Versailles, but not like everyone.

Jan 11, 2025 • Arielle Sans

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November 2024

The modern Pygmalion and Galatea

Four tiny stories of great artists recreating the classic myth in the modern times

Nov 9, 2024 • Arielle Sans

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