Etienne-Gaspard Robertson was born in Liege and, like many young men of means, he studied philosophy, art, and science at university, and for short time, became a professor of optics…. [Continue Reading]
Tag: Light and Shadow
It was a dark, frozen night in January 1799. One by one, men, women, and children filed inside an abandoned convent on the Right Bank, stepping over the threshold with… [Continue Reading]