Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries, occurring in the Italian peninsula, which was at that time divided into many political areas. The painters of Renaissance Italy, although often attached to particular…
The Florentine Romanesque style is the Romanesque architectural style that developed in Florence between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, with extremely peculiar characteristics. The Florentine Romanesque style spread only in the countryside of the city, which in the XII extended into a restricted territorial area, in a period in which…
Art from Southern United States, or southern art, includes southern expressionism, folk art, and modernism. Residents of the American South created works of art starting in 1607, however it was not until the early 1960s that southern art became recognized as a distinct genre. The Ogden Museum of Southern Art…
The Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum (Spanish: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS) is Spain’s national museum of modern art and contemporary art devoted to all artistic production from the beginning of the twentieth century to today. Founded in 1990 after originally being created as an art…
Hong Kong Wedding Fair, as Hong Kong’s biggest Wedding Exhibition Series, organized by Hongkong-Asia Exhibition (Holding) Ltd., presents four seasons of wedding festivals every year. More than 500 booths gather wedding experts from Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, Chinese Taiwan, Japan, Korea and other places to gather trendy wedding products and…
Le Bon Marché is a department store in Paris. Founded in 1838 and revamped almost completely by Aristide Boucicaut in 1852, it was one of the first modern department stores. Historically, it was the founder of Le Bon Marché who first came up with the concept of a department store,…
Rosso corsa is the red international motor racing colour of cars entered by teams from Italy. Colour coordinates Hex triplet #CC0000 RGB (r, g, b) (204, 0, 0) CMYK (c, m, y, k) (13, 100, 100, 4) HSV (h, s, v) (0°, 100%, 80%) Since the 1920s Italian race cars…
Adding more than 700 items, the National Museum’s Egyptian archeology collection was the largest in Latin America and the oldest in the Americas. Most of the pieces entered the museum’s collection in 1826, when the merchant Nicolau Fiengo brought from Marseille a collection of Egyptian antiquities that belonged to the…
The São Paulo Art Biennial was founded in 1951 and has been held every two years since. It is the second oldest art biennial in the world after the Venice Biennale (in existence since 1895), which serves as its role model. Created in 1962, the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo…
Takeshi Koya (甲谷 武 1945-) is a contemporary artist from Ise City, Mie Prefecture. Kotani, who studied art by himself, began exhibiting at the Main Art Exhibition in the 1970s and later at the Modern Art Association Exhibition (1973). Since the 1980’s, he has been exhibiting at contemporary Japanese art…
Industry and Empire, on Levels 4 and 5, explores how life in 19th century Scotland was moulded by industrial development. Contrast the mysterious superstitions surrounding the Arthur’s Seat coffins with the pioneering progress of Scottish engineering, represented by the mighty steam locomotive Ellesmere, and learn why many people chose or…
This exhibition showcases a treasure from York Castle Museum’s costume and textiles collection – a wedding dress from 1775. Women’s dress in Georgian era, the day to day outfit of the skirt and jacket style were practical and tactful, recalling the working class woman. Women’s fashions followed classical ideals, and…
A chart, also called a graph, is a graphical representation of data, in which “the data is represented by symbols, such as bars in a bar chart, lines in a line chart, or slices in a pie chart”. A chart can represent tabular numeric data, functions or some kinds of…
The National Center of Costume and Scenography (French: Centre national du costume de scène et de la scénographie CNCS) is a French museum dedicated to stage costumes and sets. CNCS is the first preservation structure, in France or abroad, to be entirely devoted to the material heritage of theaters. Its…
Hans von Aachen (1552 – 4 March 1615) was a German painter who was one of the leading representatives of Northern Mannerism Hans von Aachen was a versatile and productive artist who worked in many genres He was successful as a painter of princely and aristocratic portraits, and further painted…
The LA Art Show, the most comprehensive international contemporary art show in America, officially kick-off the city’s 2016 art season at the Los Angeles Convention Center on January 27, 2016. The LA Art Show is the premiere event for experiencing, collection, sharing & purchasing art, with more than 90 galleries…
Synthesis of arts (German: Gesamtkunstwerk) is a work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so. A Gesamtkunstwerk is a work that combines various arts such as music, poetry, dance / pantomime, architecture and painting. The compilation is not arbitrary and illustrative:…
The Latvian pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition presents ARMPIT, a multimedia art installation by Katrīna Neiburga and Andris Eglītis. It is a sculpted system of building constructions interwoven with video-stories about a peculiar local phenomenon, “garage elves”, who tend to spend their leisure time tinkering with various mechanisms…
A cottage window is a double-hung window — i.e., a window with two sashes sliding up and down, hung with one atop the other in the same frame — in which the upper sash is smaller (shorter) than the lower one. The upper sash often contains smaller lights divided by…
Spanish Colonial architecture represents Spanish colonial influence on New World and East Indies cities and towns, and it is still being seen in the architecture as well as in the city planning aspects of conserved present-day cities. These two visible aspects of the city are connected and complementary. The 16th…
Castle of Grief (Latin: Castrum doloris) is a name for the structure and decorations sheltering or accompanying the catafalque or bier that signify the prestige or high estate of the deceased. A castrum doloris might feature an elaborate baldachin and would include candles, possibly flowers, and in most cases coats…
Christmas in the Rhine region has a very strong traditional cultural atmosphere. The Rhine River spans Central Europe and Western Europe, A journey along its banks is very varied. There are eleven UNESCO World Heritage sites along, or close to, the course of the Rhine. Wandering between European classical small…
Relics and reliquaries at the Church of São Roque in Lisbon is distinguished by an unparalleled collection of relics and reliquaries most of them donated to the society of Jesus in the 16th and the 18th centuries. These precious objects of art and devotion can be visited in loco in…
The Museum of Fine Arts (or MFA) in Boston, Massachusetts, is the fourth largest museum in the United States. It contains more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas. With more than one million visitors a year, it is the 55th…
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Italian Renaissance painting
Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries, occurring in the Italian peninsula, which was at that time divided into many political areas. The painters of Renaissance Italy, although often attached to particular…
Read moreFlorentine Romanesque
The Florentine Romanesque style is the Romanesque architectural style that developed in Florence between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, with extremely peculiar characteristics. The Florentine Romanesque style spread only in the countryside of the city, which in the XII extended into a restricted territorial area, in a period in which…
Read moreSouthern art
Art from Southern United States, or southern art, includes southern expressionism, folk art, and modernism. Residents of the American South created works of art starting in 1607, however it was not until the early 1960s that southern art became recognized as a distinct genre. The Ogden Museum of Southern Art…
Read moreReina Sofía National Art Center Museum, Madrid, Spain
The Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum (Spanish: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS) is Spain’s national museum of modern art and contemporary art devoted to all artistic production from the beginning of the twentieth century to today. Founded in 1990 after originally being created as an art…
Read moreReview of Hong Kong Wedding Fair 2017, China
Hong Kong Wedding Fair, as Hong Kong’s biggest Wedding Exhibition Series, organized by Hongkong-Asia Exhibition (Holding) Ltd., presents four seasons of wedding festivals every year. More than 500 booths gather wedding experts from Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, Chinese Taiwan, Japan, Korea and other places to gather trendy wedding products and…
Read moreGuide Tour of Le Bon Marché, Paris, France
Le Bon Marché is a department store in Paris. Founded in 1838 and revamped almost completely by Aristide Boucicaut in 1852, it was one of the first modern department stores. Historically, it was the founder of Le Bon Marché who first came up with the concept of a department store,…
Read moreRosso corsa
Rosso corsa is the red international motor racing colour of cars entered by teams from Italy. Colour coordinates Hex triplet #CC0000 RGB (r, g, b) (204, 0, 0) CMYK (c, m, y, k) (13, 100, 100, 4) HSV (h, s, v) (0°, 100%, 80%) Since the 1920s Italian race cars…
Read moreAncient Egypt, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)
Adding more than 700 items, the National Museum’s Egyptian archeology collection was the largest in Latin America and the oldest in the Americas. Most of the pieces entered the museum’s collection in 1826, when the merchant Nicolau Fiengo brought from Marseille a collection of Egyptian antiquities that belonged to the…
Read moreSão Paulo Art Biennial 2018
The São Paulo Art Biennial was founded in 1951 and has been held every two years since. It is the second oldest art biennial in the world after the Venice Biennale (in existence since 1895), which serves as its role model. Created in 1962, the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo…
Read moreThe art of Takeshi Koya, Mie Prefectural Museum of Art
Takeshi Koya (甲谷 武 1945-) is a contemporary artist from Ise City, Mie Prefecture. Kotani, who studied art by himself, began exhibiting at the Main Art Exhibition in the 1970s and later at the Modern Art Association Exhibition (1973). Since the 1980’s, he has been exhibiting at contemporary Japanese art…
Read moreIndustry and Empire, National Museum of Scotland
Industry and Empire, on Levels 4 and 5, explores how life in 19th century Scotland was moulded by industrial development. Contrast the mysterious superstitions surrounding the Arthur’s Seat coffins with the pioneering progress of Scottish engineering, represented by the mighty steam locomotive Ellesmere, and learn why many people chose or…
Read moreThe Magnificent Georgian Wedding Dress, York Castle Museum
This exhibition showcases a treasure from York Castle Museum’s costume and textiles collection – a wedding dress from 1775. Women’s dress in Georgian era, the day to day outfit of the skirt and jacket style were practical and tactful, recalling the working class woman. Women’s fashions followed classical ideals, and…
Read moreChart
A chart, also called a graph, is a graphical representation of data, in which “the data is represented by symbols, such as bars in a bar chart, lines in a line chart, or slices in a pie chart”. A chart can represent tabular numeric data, functions or some kinds of…
Read moreCentre National du Costume de Scene, Moulins, France
The National Center of Costume and Scenography (French: Centre national du costume de scène et de la scénographie CNCS) is a French museum dedicated to stage costumes and sets. CNCS is the first preservation structure, in France or abroad, to be entirely devoted to the material heritage of theaters. Its…
Read moreHans von Aachen
Hans von Aachen (1552 – 4 March 1615) was a German painter who was one of the leading representatives of Northern Mannerism Hans von Aachen was a versatile and productive artist who worked in many genres He was successful as a painter of princely and aristocratic portraits, and further painted…
Read moreReview of LA Art Show 2016, California, United States
The LA Art Show, the most comprehensive international contemporary art show in America, officially kick-off the city’s 2016 art season at the Los Angeles Convention Center on January 27, 2016. The LA Art Show is the premiere event for experiencing, collection, sharing & purchasing art, with more than 90 galleries…
Read moreGesamtkunstwerk
Synthesis of arts (German: Gesamtkunstwerk) is a work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so. A Gesamtkunstwerk is a work that combines various arts such as music, poetry, dance / pantomime, architecture and painting. The compilation is not arbitrary and illustrative:…
Read moreARMPIT, Latvian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015
The Latvian pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition presents ARMPIT, a multimedia art installation by Katrīna Neiburga and Andris Eglītis. It is a sculpted system of building constructions interwoven with video-stories about a peculiar local phenomenon, “garage elves”, who tend to spend their leisure time tinkering with various mechanisms…
Read moreCottage window
A cottage window is a double-hung window — i.e., a window with two sashes sliding up and down, hung with one atop the other in the same frame — in which the upper sash is smaller (shorter) than the lower one. The upper sash often contains smaller lights divided by…
Read moreSpanish Colonial architecture
Spanish Colonial architecture represents Spanish colonial influence on New World and East Indies cities and towns, and it is still being seen in the architecture as well as in the city planning aspects of conserved present-day cities. These two visible aspects of the city are connected and complementary. The 16th…
Read moreCastrum doloris
Castle of Grief (Latin: Castrum doloris) is a name for the structure and decorations sheltering or accompanying the catafalque or bier that signify the prestige or high estate of the deceased. A castrum doloris might feature an elaborate baldachin and would include candles, possibly flowers, and in most cases coats…
Read moreChristmas Markets in the Rhine Region
Christmas in the Rhine region has a very strong traditional cultural atmosphere. The Rhine River spans Central Europe and Western Europe, A journey along its banks is very varied. There are eleven UNESCO World Heritage sites along, or close to, the course of the Rhine. Wandering between European classical small…
Read moreRelics and Reliquaries, Saint Roch Church Museum
Relics and reliquaries at the Church of São Roque in Lisbon is distinguished by an unparalleled collection of relics and reliquaries most of them donated to the society of Jesus in the 16th and the 18th centuries. These precious objects of art and devotion can be visited in loco in…
Read moreMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States
The Museum of Fine Arts (or MFA) in Boston, Massachusetts, is the fourth largest museum in the United States. It contains more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas. With more than one million visitors a year, it is the 55th…
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