All About Carats and Karats

When diamond was traded years ago, merchants used carob seeds as an original unit of measure, which is where the word carat is derived from. Because of the uniformity in the size of carob seeds, it was adopted as a generally accepted unit of measurement centuries ago.   These days, the carat (ct) is a […]

Pablo Picasso’s Dormeur

An observant and deliberate painter, Vermeer produced only 36 known works in his lifetime, while many of his contemporaries completed hundreds. Like his peers, he mostly depicted scenes of ordinary life, later called “genre” painting, often of women at daily tasks. Notable examples include Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (c. 1657) and […]