Books in paintings

Has anyone ever asked you to read books to change your life? Here are the 21 best life-changing books that altered my understanding of life. (+ some more from recent years)

HI RES Sir John Lavery [Irish painter best known for his portraits, 1856-1941] Biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lavery Oil on canvas

she was reading a book , 2022 oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm

I've been dreaming of this project for months and I'm so smitten with how it came out. Perusing Instagram one day I spied a medieval painting with a young man holding a heart shaped book and I KNEW I wanted to make my own. Apparently heart shaped books were quite popular during the late Middle Ages. A quick search and you'll find loads of beautiful antique examples. For my book, I've used a Book Of Love Heart Mini Album and paper from Graphic 45's Flower Shoppe (one of my favaourite…

Jessie Wilcox Smith Repinned by Ellery Adams www.elleryadamsmysteries.com

"If," written by manly writer Rudyard Kipling, is an amazingly insightful poem on the attributes of what makes a man a man.

Now that school is out, the next best place to read a book is at the beach, on a hammock, in the garden, or outside on a starry summer night. And here are the drawings and paintings to prove it.

Walter Gay, born #OnThisDay in Hingham in 1856, painted this interior in Paris, where he traveled to study art.

Reading books have been an integral part of our lives since antiquity, let's take a look at six paintings to celebrate World Book Day in art.