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- Cuentos Infantiles - Children´s Stories & Fairy Tales
- Sobre los Cuentos - About Fairy Tales
- Folktales from India - Cuentos y Leyendas de la India
- The Leiden Collection
- The Orozco Collection
Folktales from India: Teaching the King a Lesson
In every corner of India, there is a wealth of folktales. Their subjects are diverse -how the world was made, how the kings should rule, tales of wise and foolish, men, women and, animal fables. Looking for folktales, I found those compiled by Eunice de Souza, whose brief biography shows at the end of this post.
The Leiden Collection
The Leiden Collection that Thomas S. Kaplan and his wife, Daphne Recanati Kaplan, have assembled over the past 17 years includes more than 250 paintings and drawings by many of the finest artists from the Dutch Golden Age. Named after Rembrandt van Rijn’s native city, The Leiden Collection has extraordinary depth and breadth in paintings by Leiden artists, ranging from significant paintings by Rembrandt and Jan Lievens to outstanding works by Gerrit Dou and Frans van Mieris. This essay presents an overview of the Collection. “A Portrait in Oil,” Tom Kaplan’s personal account of his and Daphne’s journey as collectors of Dutch art, explains how the Collection took shape.
