Virtuality is a concept in philosophy elaborated by French thinker Gilles Deleuze. The virtualization is the passage of current to the virtual. For Pierre Lévy the virtual is not the opposite of the real, but a continuation of it. There are several types of virtualization, such as the virtualization of…
The 11th Hong Kong International Licensing Show take place at Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) from 7-9 January 2013. More than 200 exhibitors with 600 brands and properties, participated in the 2013 edition of the show, which attracted nearly 16,000 visitors from 110 countries and regions. The Hong…
The Venice Carnival 2020 last from February 8 to 25. The 2020 edition of the Venice Carnival will revolve around the theme of love declined together with the game and a pinch of madness. More than 150 events, 50 initiatives for children and young people, as many cultural reviews with…
Human overpopulation (or population overshoot) occurs when the ecological footprint of a human population in a specific geographical location exceeds the carrying capacity of the place occupied by that group. Overpopulation can further be viewed, in a long term perspective, as existing if a population cannot be maintained given the…
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue), because it fully reflects and scatters all the visible wavelengths of light. It is the color of fresh snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a…
Museo Casa de Cervantes, located in city Valladolid of autonomous community Castile and Leon, Spain, is the house where the novelist, poet and playwright Miguel de Cervantes lived in the year 1605. Currently it is a museum. The building was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural on 9 June 1958.…
The Picasso Museum is the French national museum dedicated to the life and work of Pablo Picasso and the artists who were linked to him. The museum collection includes more than 5,000 works of art (paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, prints, engravings and notebooks) and tens of thousands of archived pieces…
Telecommunications in the Philippines are well-developed due to the presence of modern infrastructure facilities. The industry was deregulated in 1995, leading to the creation of many telecommunication service providers for mobile, fixed-line, Internet and other services. Facts and figures Telephones Telephones – main lines in use 6.782 million (2011) 9…
The Marburg building system is considered the first precast construction concept in the German Federal University building. For the natural science institutes of the Philipps-University Marburg on the Lahn mountains 1961-63 / 65 rastered concrete elements were developed. Until the 1970s, the Marburg system influenced later university buildings from Darmstadt…
Psychedelic art is any art or visual displays inspired by psychedelic experiences and hallucinations known to follow the ingestion of psychoactive drugs such as LSD and psilocybin. The word “psychedelic” (coined by British psychologist Humphry Osmond) means “mind manifesting”. By that definition, all artistic efforts to depict the inner world…
The Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally known art museum located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio, United States. It houses a collection of more than 30,000 objects. The museum was founded by Toledo glassmaker Edward Drummond Libbey in 1901, and moved to its current location,…
Greco Deco is a term coined by Washington, DC based art historian James M. Goode to describe a style of art and architecture popularized in the late 1920s and 1930s. Arising out of the Beaux-Arts tradition, Greco Deco combined Greek and Roman traditions with those of the then fashionable Art…
Susa is an Italian town of 6 232 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Turin in Piedmont. The city was founded at the confluence of the Dora Riparia river with the Cenischia stream in a strategic position for the control of the roads leading to the Mont Cenis and Monginevro…
Fashion in the period 1795–1820 in European and European-influenced countries saw the final triumph of undress or informal styles over the brocades, lace, periwigs and powder of the earlier 18th century. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, no one wanted to appear to be a member of the French…
The Museum of Arts and Crafts (Croatian: Muzej za umjetnost i obrt) in Zagreb extends over three floors at more than 2000 m² of museum space and includes about 3000 exhibits. The displayed objects illustrate the shift of stylistic periods from Gothic to graphic and product design of the period…
The exhibition “The great Time is Out of Joint”, bringing to completion an extensive process of transformation, reorganization and rearrangement of its collections, marked the opening of a new chapter in the history of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibition, which is still open to the…
Taking its name from medieval troubadours, the Troubadour Style, style troubadour in French, was a somewhat derisive term for French historical painting of the early 19th century with idealised depictions of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It can be seen as an aspect of Romanticism and a reaction against…
The department of Savoie is a French department in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, whose capital is the city of Chambery. The Savoie department is the second most mountainous in France, after the Hautes-Alpes department, with nearly 90% of its territory located in mountain areas. The Savoy tourism country has the tourism…
The architecture of Finland has a history spanning over 800 years, and while up until the modern era the architecture was strongly influenced by currents from Finland’s two respective neighbouring ruling nations, Sweden and Russia, from the early 19th century onwards influences came directly from further afield; first when itinerant…
The Venice International Boat Show 2022, last from May 28 to June 5, in the spectacular structures of the city’s Arsenal, symbol of the power and military power of the Serenissima Republic and the heart of its naval industry which has allowed it to be one of the greatest maritime…
Flamboyant is the name given to a florid style of late Gothic architecture in vogue in France from about 1350, until it was superseded by Renaissance architecture during the early 16th century. The term has been mainly used to describe French buildings and sometimes the early period of English Gothic…
Ink brushes (毛笔) are used in Chinese calligraphy. They are also used in Chinese painting and other brush painting styles. The brush was invented in China around 300 B.C. Together with the inkstone, inkstick and Xuan paper, these four writing implements form the Four Treasures of the Study. The calligraphy…
Timber framing and “post-and-beam” construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs. It is commonplace in wooden buildings from the 19th century and earlier. If the structural frame of load-bearing timber is…
The Musée d’art moderne André Malraux is a museum in Le Havre, France containing one of the nation’s most extensive collections of impressionist paintings. It was designed by Atelier LWD, an architecture studio led by Guy Lagneau, Michel Weill and Jean Dimitrijevic. It is named after André Malraux, Minister of…
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Virtuality in philosophy
Virtuality is a concept in philosophy elaborated by French thinker Gilles Deleuze. The virtualization is the passage of current to the virtual. For Pierre Lévy the virtual is not the opposite of the real, but a continuation of it. There are several types of virtualization, such as the virtualization of…
Read moreReview of Hong Kong International Licensing Show 2013, China
The 11th Hong Kong International Licensing Show take place at Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) from 7-9 January 2013. More than 200 exhibitors with 600 brands and properties, participated in the 2013 edition of the show, which attracted nearly 16,000 visitors from 110 countries and regions. The Hong…
Read moreReview of Venice Carnival 2020, Italy
The Venice Carnival 2020 last from February 8 to 25. The 2020 edition of the Venice Carnival will revolve around the theme of love declined together with the game and a pinch of madness. More than 150 events, 50 initiatives for children and young people, as many cultural reviews with…
Read moreHuman overpopulation
Human overpopulation (or population overshoot) occurs when the ecological footprint of a human population in a specific geographical location exceeds the carrying capacity of the place occupied by that group. Overpopulation can further be viewed, in a long term perspective, as existing if a population cannot be maintained given the…
Read moreWhite color in culture
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue), because it fully reflects and scatters all the visible wavelengths of light. It is the color of fresh snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a…
Read moreMuseo Casa de Cervantes, Valladolid, Spain
Museo Casa de Cervantes, located in city Valladolid of autonomous community Castile and Leon, Spain, is the house where the novelist, poet and playwright Miguel de Cervantes lived in the year 1605. Currently it is a museum. The building was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural on 9 June 1958.…
Read moreGuide Tour of Musée National Picasso, Paris, France
The Picasso Museum is the French national museum dedicated to the life and work of Pablo Picasso and the artists who were linked to him. The museum collection includes more than 5,000 works of art (paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, prints, engravings and notebooks) and tens of thousands of archived pieces…
Read moreTelecommunications in the Philippines
Telecommunications in the Philippines are well-developed due to the presence of modern infrastructure facilities. The industry was deregulated in 1995, leading to the creation of many telecommunication service providers for mobile, fixed-line, Internet and other services. Facts and figures Telephones Telephones – main lines in use 6.782 million (2011) 9…
Read moreMarburg building system
The Marburg building system is considered the first precast construction concept in the German Federal University building. For the natural science institutes of the Philipps-University Marburg on the Lahn mountains 1961-63 / 65 rastered concrete elements were developed. Until the 1970s, the Marburg system influenced later university buildings from Darmstadt…
Read morePsychedelic art
Psychedelic art is any art or visual displays inspired by psychedelic experiences and hallucinations known to follow the ingestion of psychoactive drugs such as LSD and psilocybin. The word “psychedelic” (coined by British psychologist Humphry Osmond) means “mind manifesting”. By that definition, all artistic efforts to depict the inner world…
Read moreToledo Museum of Art, United States
The Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally known art museum located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio, United States. It houses a collection of more than 30,000 objects. The museum was founded by Toledo glassmaker Edward Drummond Libbey in 1901, and moved to its current location,…
Read moreGreco Deco
Greco Deco is a term coined by Washington, DC based art historian James M. Goode to describe a style of art and architecture popularized in the late 1920s and 1930s. Arising out of the Beaux-Arts tradition, Greco Deco combined Greek and Roman traditions with those of the then fashionable Art…
Read moreSusa, Metropolitan city of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Susa is an Italian town of 6 232 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Turin in Piedmont. The city was founded at the confluence of the Dora Riparia river with the Cenischia stream in a strategic position for the control of the roads leading to the Mont Cenis and Monginevro…
Read moreWestern fashion of men in 1795–1820
Fashion in the period 1795–1820 in European and European-influenced countries saw the final triumph of undress or informal styles over the brocades, lace, periwigs and powder of the earlier 18th century. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, no one wanted to appear to be a member of the French…
Read moreMuseum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, Croatia
The Museum of Arts and Crafts (Croatian: Muzej za umjetnost i obrt) in Zagreb extends over three floors at more than 2000 m² of museum space and includes about 3000 exhibits. The displayed objects illustrate the shift of stylistic periods from Gothic to graphic and product design of the period…
Read moreRooms of 19th century, Second sector, National gallery of modern and contemporary art in Rome
The exhibition “The great Time is Out of Joint”, bringing to completion an extensive process of transformation, reorganization and rearrangement of its collections, marked the opening of a new chapter in the history of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibition, which is still open to the…
Read moreTroubadour style
Taking its name from medieval troubadours, the Troubadour Style, style troubadour in French, was a somewhat derisive term for French historical painting of the early 19th century with idealised depictions of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It can be seen as an aspect of Romanticism and a reaction against…
Read moreSavoie Travel Guide, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
The department of Savoie is a French department in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, whose capital is the city of Chambery. The Savoie department is the second most mountainous in France, after the Hautes-Alpes department, with nearly 90% of its territory located in mountain areas. The Savoy tourism country has the tourism…
Read moreArchitecture of Finland
The architecture of Finland has a history spanning over 800 years, and while up until the modern era the architecture was strongly influenced by currents from Finland’s two respective neighbouring ruling nations, Sweden and Russia, from the early 19th century onwards influences came directly from further afield; first when itinerant…
Read moreReview of Venice Boat Show 2022, Italy
The Venice International Boat Show 2022, last from May 28 to June 5, in the spectacular structures of the city’s Arsenal, symbol of the power and military power of the Serenissima Republic and the heart of its naval industry which has allowed it to be one of the greatest maritime…
Read moreFlamboyant in Gothic architecture
Flamboyant is the name given to a florid style of late Gothic architecture in vogue in France from about 1350, until it was superseded by Renaissance architecture during the early 16th century. The term has been mainly used to describe French buildings and sometimes the early period of English Gothic…
Read moreInk Brushes
Ink brushes (毛笔) are used in Chinese calligraphy. They are also used in Chinese painting and other brush painting styles. The brush was invented in China around 300 B.C. Together with the inkstone, inkstick and Xuan paper, these four writing implements form the Four Treasures of the Study. The calligraphy…
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Timber framing and “post-and-beam” construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs. It is commonplace in wooden buildings from the 19th century and earlier. If the structural frame of load-bearing timber is…
Read moreMuMa – Musée d’art moderne André Malraux Le Havre, France
The Musée d’art moderne André Malraux is a museum in Le Havre, France containing one of the nation’s most extensive collections of impressionist paintings. It was designed by Atelier LWD, an architecture studio led by Guy Lagneau, Michel Weill and Jean Dimitrijevic. It is named after André Malraux, Minister of…
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