The basilica of Montserrat began construction in the 16th century and began to be completely rebuilt in the year 1811, after being destroyed in the Peninsular War. In 1881 the Pope Leo XIII granted it the status of minor basilica. The facade was realized in 1901, work of Francisco de…
Agostino Ferrari. “At the end of 1962 I began to use the sign as nonsignificant writing… today there is still the awareness of reality, which I represent as I have always done, developing a theme with signs and forms. At the same time, there is everything I do not know…
In painting, local color is the natural color of an object unmodified by adding light and shadow or any other distortion. Local color is best seen on a matte surface, due to it not being reflected, and therefore distorted. In fine art realism and scientific descriptions of color perception, local…
“Overcoming the Distance – Five Centuries of Communications in Portugal”, the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Communications, is a show about the evolution and improvement of techniques that allowed Humanity to communicate more and more quickly and efficiently. Organized chronologically in two routes, one on the history of the…
The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by Frank Gehry. As the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. The hall is a…
Artissima 2017, Curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Vittoria Martini, ‘Deposit of Italian Art Present’ is the new exhibition at Artissima focusing on Italian art. The ‘Deposito’ will host prestigious loans from Piedmont-based institutions and works from the galleries taking part in the fair, reflecting their contributions to the production of…
A color appearance model (abbreviated CAM) is a mathematical model that seeks to describe the perceptual aspects of human color vision, i.e. viewing conditions under which the appearance of a color does not tally with the corresponding physical measurement of the stimulus source. (In contrast, a color model defines a…
Japanese Swords (刀剣) is a generic term for weapons equipped with blades or swords that are as long as or longer than a grip. In general, the sword refers to a double-edged one and the sword refers to a single-edged one, but there are things not limited to this. For…
Rail transport in the Netherlands uses a dense railway network which connects nearly all major towns and cities. The Dutch rail network primarily supports passenger transport. Rail travel comprises the majority of the distance travelled on Dutch public transport. The national rail infrastructure is managed and maintained by the government…
The Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection comprises over ten thousand pieces and consists of objects dating from prehistory to those used in present day Anatolia. These comprise the main types of scales and measuring instruments, used for measuring weight, length, and volume in every field, from land measurement to commerce,…
In the psychology of color, color preferences are the tendency for an individual or a group to prefer some colors over others, such as having a favorite color. Introduction An ‘ecological valence theory’ (EVT) has been suggested to explain why people have preferences for different colors. This is the idea…
Fantastic architecture is an architectural style featuring attention-grabbing buildings. Such buildings can be considered as works of art, and are normally built purely for the amusement of its owner. Fantastic architecture should not be confused with novelty architecture. While both styles have unusual, attention-grabbing designs, novelty architecture is meant to…
Mickey’s Toontown is a themed land at Disneyland. The attraction is a small-scale recreation of the Mickey Mouse universe where visitors can meet the characters and visit their homes which are constructed in a cartoonish style. It was inspired by “Toontown” from the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit in…
Inhotim’s gardens are unique, with rare beauty and landscaping that exploits all the aesthetic possibilities of the botanical collection. In addition to contemplation, the gardens are a field for floristic studies, cataloging of new botanical species, conservation in situ (their environment) and ex situ (outside their environment) and environmental education…
Beaucroissant is a French commune located in the department of Isère in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The town is known for the Beaucroissant fair of regional importance which has been held there annually since the Middle Ages. Parish of the royal province of Dauphiné during the Ancien Régime, the town is…
The Cliff May Experimental House was built by Cliff May in the early 1950s as his family’s fourth house and developed to push his ideas of “bringing the outdoors in” and open interior planning. The one-story, 1800-sf house is a simple rectangle in plan with a 288-square foot open skylight…
The architecture of England is the architecture of modern England and in the historic Kingdom of England. It often includes buildings created under English influence or by English architects in other parts of the world, particularly in the English and later British colonies and Empire, which developed into the Commonwealth…
Les Invalides (formally the Hôtel national des Invalides) is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans. This immense architectural complex, designed by…
The Central Collecting Point and the founding of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte In June 1945 the American Office of Military Government installed the Central Art Collecting Point in the former National Socialist Party buildings on Königsplatz in Munich. This art collection facility was to restitute cultural property looted by the…
The Palau de Maricel is one of the most emblematic buildings in Sitges. Forming part of Maricel’s artistic ensemble, also receives the name of Maricel de Terra as a differentiation from the museum also known as Maricel de Mar. The Gold Room, the Blue Room, the Chapel Room, the Ship’s…
The Central Public Library of Milan (known as the Sormani Library) is the main seat of the municipal library system of the Milanese capital, located in Corso Porta Vittoria. The library has a vast collection of volumes, the catalog has more than 650,000; deals with all fields of knowledge and…
Kenya National Archives and Documentation Services (KNADS) is situated at the edge of the central business district in downtown Nairobi along Moi Avenue next to Ambassadeur Hotel. The archives look out on the landmark Hilton Hotel, while on the rear side is Tom Mboya street. It was established in 1965.…
The exhibition Pleiad of Glass 1946–2019, which has consisted of art-exhibition glass objects, has been expanded to include almost fifty large-scale sculptures from the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. “Whereas the first hall of the Pleiad of Glass exhibition showcase art glass and is evocative of…
Santo Domingo in Mexico City refers to the Church of Santo Domingo and its Plaza, also called Santo Domingo. Both are located three blocks north of the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral following Republica de Brasil Street with Belisario Dominguez Street separating the two. The Church of Santo Domingo is a…
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Basilica, Montserrat Abbey of Santa Maria
The basilica of Montserrat began construction in the 16th century and began to be completely rebuilt in the year 1811, after being destroyed in the Peninsular War. In 1881 the Pope Leo XIII granted it the status of minor basilica. The facade was realized in 1901, work of Francisco de…
Read moreAgostino Ferrari: Signs over time, Museum of the Twentieth Century
Agostino Ferrari. “At the end of 1962 I began to use the sign as nonsignificant writing… today there is still the awareness of reality, which I represent as I have always done, developing a theme with signs and forms. At the same time, there is everything I do not know…
Read moreLocal color painting
In painting, local color is the natural color of an object unmodified by adding light and shadow or any other distortion. Local color is best seen on a matte surface, due to it not being reflected, and therefore distorted. In fine art realism and scientific descriptions of color perception, local…
Read moreOvercoming Distance, Portuguese Communications Museum
“Overcoming the Distance – Five Centuries of Communications in Portugal”, the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Communications, is a show about the evolution and improvement of techniques that allowed Humanity to communicate more and more quickly and efficiently. Organized chronologically in two routes, one on the history of the…
Read moreGuide Tour of Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California, United States
The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by Frank Gehry. As the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. The hall is a…
Read moreArtissima 2017: Deposit of Italian Art Present, Turin, Italy
Artissima 2017, Curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Vittoria Martini, ‘Deposit of Italian Art Present’ is the new exhibition at Artissima focusing on Italian art. The ‘Deposito’ will host prestigious loans from Piedmont-based institutions and works from the galleries taking part in the fair, reflecting their contributions to the production of…
Read moreColor appearance model
A color appearance model (abbreviated CAM) is a mathematical model that seeks to describe the perceptual aspects of human color vision, i.e. viewing conditions under which the appearance of a color does not tally with the corresponding physical measurement of the stimulus source. (In contrast, a color model defines a…
Read moreJapanese Swords, Tokyo National Museum
Japanese Swords (刀剣) is a generic term for weapons equipped with blades or swords that are as long as or longer than a grip. In general, the sword refers to a double-edged one and the sword refers to a single-edged one, but there are things not limited to this. For…
Read moreRail travel guide in the Netherlands
Rail transport in the Netherlands uses a dense railway network which connects nearly all major towns and cities. The Dutch rail network primarily supports passenger transport. Rail travel comprises the majority of the distance travelled on Dutch public transport. The national rail infrastructure is managed and maintained by the government…
Read moreAnatolian Weights and Measures Collection, Pera Museum
The Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection comprises over ten thousand pieces and consists of objects dating from prehistory to those used in present day Anatolia. These comprise the main types of scales and measuring instruments, used for measuring weight, length, and volume in every field, from land measurement to commerce,…
Read moreColor preferences
In the psychology of color, color preferences are the tendency for an individual or a group to prefer some colors over others, such as having a favorite color. Introduction An ‘ecological valence theory’ (EVT) has been suggested to explain why people have preferences for different colors. This is the idea…
Read moreFantastic architecture
Fantastic architecture is an architectural style featuring attention-grabbing buildings. Such buildings can be considered as works of art, and are normally built purely for the amusement of its owner. Fantastic architecture should not be confused with novelty architecture. While both styles have unusual, attention-grabbing designs, novelty architecture is meant to…
Read moreGuide Tour of Mickey’s Toontown, Disneyland Park, California, United States
Mickey’s Toontown is a themed land at Disneyland. The attraction is a small-scale recreation of the Mickey Mouse universe where visitors can meet the characters and visit their homes which are constructed in a cartoonish style. It was inspired by “Toontown” from the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit in…
Read moreBotanical Garden, 360° Video, Inhotim Institute
Inhotim’s gardens are unique, with rare beauty and landscaping that exploits all the aesthetic possibilities of the botanical collection. In addition to contemplation, the gardens are a field for floristic studies, cataloging of new botanical species, conservation in situ (their environment) and ex situ (outside their environment) and environmental education…
Read moreBeaucroissant, Isere, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Beaucroissant is a French commune located in the department of Isère in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The town is known for the Beaucroissant fair of regional importance which has been held there annually since the Middle Ages. Parish of the royal province of Dauphiné during the Ancien Régime, the town is…
Read moreCliff May Experimental House
The Cliff May Experimental House was built by Cliff May in the early 1950s as his family’s fourth house and developed to push his ideas of “bringing the outdoors in” and open interior planning. The one-story, 1800-sf house is a simple rectangle in plan with a 288-square foot open skylight…
Read moreArchitecture of England
The architecture of England is the architecture of modern England and in the historic Kingdom of England. It often includes buildings created under English influence or by English architects in other parts of the world, particularly in the English and later British colonies and Empire, which developed into the Commonwealth…
Read moreGuide Tour of Les Invalides, Paris, France
Les Invalides (formally the Hôtel national des Invalides) is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans. This immense architectural complex, designed by…
Read moreHistory of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
The Central Collecting Point and the founding of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte In June 1945 the American Office of Military Government installed the Central Art Collecting Point in the former National Socialist Party buildings on Königsplatz in Munich. This art collection facility was to restitute cultural property looted by the…
Read moreMaricel Palace, Sitges, Spain
The Palau de Maricel is one of the most emblematic buildings in Sitges. Forming part of Maricel’s artistic ensemble, also receives the name of Maricel de Terra as a differentiation from the museum also known as Maricel de Mar. The Gold Room, the Blue Room, the Chapel Room, the Ship’s…
Read moreCentral Municipal Library of Milan, Italy
The Central Public Library of Milan (known as the Sormani Library) is the main seat of the municipal library system of the Milanese capital, located in Corso Porta Vittoria. The library has a vast collection of volumes, the catalog has more than 650,000; deals with all fields of knowledge and…
Read moreKenya National Archives Nairobi, Kenya
Kenya National Archives and Documentation Services (KNADS) is situated at the edge of the central business district in downtown Nairobi along Moi Avenue next to Ambassadeur Hotel. The archives look out on the landmark Hilton Hotel, while on the rear side is Tom Mboya street. It was established in 1965.…
Read morePleiad of Glass 1946–2019, Museum of Decorative Arts In Prague
The exhibition Pleiad of Glass 1946–2019, which has consisted of art-exhibition glass objects, has been expanded to include almost fifty large-scale sculptures from the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. “Whereas the first hall of the Pleiad of Glass exhibition showcase art glass and is evocative of…
Read moreSanto Domingo Church, Mexico City, Mexico
Santo Domingo in Mexico City refers to the Church of Santo Domingo and its Plaza, also called Santo Domingo. Both are located three blocks north of the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral following Republica de Brasil Street with Belisario Dominguez Street separating the two. The Church of Santo Domingo is a…
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