Oil droplets are found in the eyes of some animals, being located in the photoreceptor cells. They are especially common in the eyes of diurnal (active during the day) reptiles (e.g. lizards, turtles) and birds (see bird vision), though are present in other taxa such as lungfish. They are found…
The 14 rooms of historical sections tell the complete story of the history of Rome, from its origins to the VIth century AD; following on from this is the section devoted to Christianity. The numbering of the rooms presented here is not progressive, but reflects the current visit route; also…
Flamenco is our most authentic cultural identity; is the art in our land, a symbol that identifies us as Andalusians inside and outside our borders. The Andalusian Institute of Flamenco is an Andalusian institution created in Jerez de la Frontera, dedicated to the recovery, conservation, research and diffusion of flamenco.…
The urban renaissance is the study of urban transformations made during the Renaissance, between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and theoretical discussions about the city developed during this period. Theories of the ideal city A new and essential feature of Renaissance architecture was the theoretical elaboration of the form to…
The castle fell into disuse after the fall of the Second Mexican Empire in 1867. in 1876, a decree established it as an Astronomical, Meteorological and Magnetic Observatory on the site. In 1878 the first National Astronomical Observatory was established in the Chapultepec Castle, for which the building was once…
Sankei-en (三溪園 Sankei Garden) is a traditional Japanese-style garden in Naka Ward, Yokohama, Japan, which opened in 1906 Sankei-en was designed and built by Tomitaro Hara (原富太郎 1868–1939), known by the pseudonym Sankei Hara, who was a silk trader Almost all of its buildings are historically significant structures bought by…
Merovingian art is the art of the Merovingian dynasty of the Franks, which lasted from the 5th century to the 8th century in present-day France, Benelux and a part of Germany. The advent of the Merovingian dynasty in Gaul in the 5th century led to important changes in the field…
The World Monuments Fund (WMF) is a non-profit, international, non-governmental organization established in New York in 1965 to save the most precious monuments in the world. WMF dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and cultural heritage sites around the world through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training. Founded in…
Start-ups challenging tomorrow. As the environment changes, the concept of work is also changing. Previously, a big company used to make and sell things, but now, individuals begin to make creative goods and services. Startup the Future is an exhibition that shows the vision for the founder and the direction…
Japanese painting (Japanese: 絵画) is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese visual arts, encompassing a wide variety of genres and styles. As with the history of Japanese arts in general, the long history of Japanese painting exhibits synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and…
In Belgium, postmodernism in architecture appeared in the late 1970s, as a reaction to modernist and functionalist architecture, with the construction of the “Stephanie 1″ building by the Atelier d’architecture de Genval, founded by André Jacqmain.. It dominates the architecture of office buildings in major cities during the 1980s, 1990s,…
The Holocaust tourism is a term used by the media in relation to round-trip travel to destinations connected with the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust in World War II, including visits to sites of Jewish martyrology such as former Nazi death camps and concentration camps turned into state museums.…
Johann Albrecht Siegwitz (surname also victories joke; Born in Bamberg, Dead in 1756 or later, probably in Breslau) was a German sculptor, the first in Prague worked and from 1724 mainly in Wroclaw. Life His exact life dates are not known yet. It is possible that he learned his profession…
Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. Renewable energy often provides energy in four important areas: electricity generation, air and water heating/cooling, transportation, and rural (off-grid) energy services. Renewables…
Contemporary Indigenous Australian art is the modern art work produced by Indigenous Australians, that is, Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people. It is generally regarded as beginning in 1971 with a painting movement that started at Papunya, northwest of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, involving Aboriginal artists such as Clifford…
The Little Museum of Dublin is a people’s museum of Dublin, situated at 15 St. Stephens Green, Dublin, Ireland. The museum is located in an 18th-century Georgian town house owned by Dublin City Council. As a civic museum for the city of Dublin, the Little Museum chronicles the history of…
The Story of the Jewish Community of Trzebinia, Poland On the eve of WWII, about 1,500 Jews lived in Trzebinia, Poland a community that flourished with creativity and culture, religion and tradition, social life and politics.On 29 May 1942 the deportation of the Jews of Trzebinia began. That day, SS…
The town of Sant Adria de Besos is a municipality in the county of Barcelonès within the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Sant Adrià de Besòs (3.87 km2) is the municipality located at the mouth of the river Besòs, between the municipalities of Barcelona, Santa Coloma de Gramenet and Badalona, with…
The Gustave-Moreau Museum is a national museum located at 14, rue Catherine de La Rochefoucauld, in Paris 9th, dedicated to the works of Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau. The museum keeps a total of around 14,000 works. Most of his studio collection is exhibited there, nearly 850 of his paintings or…
The Maresme is one of the counties of Catalonia. It is located between the Mediterranean Sea and the river Tordera (north) and the town of Montgat (included in the region, south). On the other side of its northern border, past the river Tordera, is the town of Blanes, where the…
The National Museum of Indonesia is an archeological, historical, ethnological, and geographical museum located in Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat, Central Jakarta, right on the west side of Merdeka Square. Popularly known as Elephant Building (Indonesian: Gedung Gajah) after the elephant statue in its forecourt. Its broad collections cover all of…
Reza Abbasi (1565 – 1635), was the leading Persian miniaturist of the Isfahan School during the later Safavid period, spending most of his career working for Shah Abbas I He is considered to be the last great master of the Persian miniature, best known for his single miniatures for muraqqa…
The Renaissance theater is the union of dramaturgical genres and different forms of theater written and practiced in Europe in the late Middle Ages and the beginning of modern age. In this period there is a phenomenon of rebirth of the theater, prepared by the long medieval theatrical tradition that…
The Sichuan Museum has more than 7,000 ethnic cultural relics, and the ethnic cultural relics on display are selected, including the Yi, Tibetan, Yi, Miao, Hui, Mongolian, Tujia and other 14 ethnic minority handicrafts. Religious utensils, costumes, daily necessities, daily necessities, tools, musical instruments, weapons, etc., string together the culture,…
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Oil droplet
Oil droplets are found in the eyes of some animals, being located in the photoreceptor cells. They are especially common in the eyes of diurnal (active during the day) reptiles (e.g. lizards, turtles) and birds (see bird vision), though are present in other taxa such as lungfish. They are found…
Read moreHistorical sections, Museum of Roman Civilization
The 14 rooms of historical sections tell the complete story of the history of Rome, from its origins to the VIth century AD; following on from this is the section devoted to Christianity. The numbering of the rooms presented here is not progressive, but reflects the current visit route; also…
Read moreInstituto Andaluz del Flamenco, Seville, Spain
Flamenco is our most authentic cultural identity; is the art in our land, a symbol that identifies us as Andalusians inside and outside our borders. The Andalusian Institute of Flamenco is an Andalusian institution created in Jerez de la Frontera, dedicated to the recovery, conservation, research and diffusion of flamenco.…
Read moreRenaissance urbanism
The urban renaissance is the study of urban transformations made during the Renaissance, between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and theoretical discussions about the city developed during this period. Theories of the ideal city A new and essential feature of Renaissance architecture was the theoretical elaboration of the form to…
Read morePresidential Residence and Office, Alcázar Site Museum, Chapultepec Castle
The castle fell into disuse after the fall of the Second Mexican Empire in 1867. in 1876, a decree established it as an Astronomical, Meteorological and Magnetic Observatory on the site. In 1878 the first National Astronomical Observatory was established in the Chapultepec Castle, for which the building was once…
Read moreSankei-en Yokohama, Japan
Sankei-en (三溪園 Sankei Garden) is a traditional Japanese-style garden in Naka Ward, Yokohama, Japan, which opened in 1906 Sankei-en was designed and built by Tomitaro Hara (原富太郎 1868–1939), known by the pseudonym Sankei Hara, who was a silk trader Almost all of its buildings are historically significant structures bought by…
Read moreMerovingian art
Merovingian art is the art of the Merovingian dynasty of the Franks, which lasted from the 5th century to the 8th century in present-day France, Benelux and a part of Germany. The advent of the Merovingian dynasty in Gaul in the 5th century led to important changes in the field…
Read moreWorld Monuments Fund, New York, United States
The World Monuments Fund (WMF) is a non-profit, international, non-governmental organization established in New York in 1965 to save the most precious monuments in the world. WMF dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and cultural heritage sites around the world through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training. Founded in…
Read moreStartup the Future, Gwangju Design Biennale 2017
Start-ups challenging tomorrow. As the environment changes, the concept of work is also changing. Previously, a big company used to make and sell things, but now, individuals begin to make creative goods and services. Startup the Future is an exhibition that shows the vision for the founder and the direction…
Read moreJapanese painting
Japanese painting (Japanese: 絵画) is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese visual arts, encompassing a wide variety of genres and styles. As with the history of Japanese arts in general, the long history of Japanese painting exhibits synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and…
Read morePostmodern architecture in Belgium
In Belgium, postmodernism in architecture appeared in the late 1970s, as a reaction to modernist and functionalist architecture, with the construction of the “Stephanie 1″ building by the Atelier d’architecture de Genval, founded by André Jacqmain.. It dominates the architecture of office buildings in major cities during the 1980s, 1990s,…
Read moreHolocaust tourism
The Holocaust tourism is a term used by the media in relation to round-trip travel to destinations connected with the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust in World War II, including visits to sites of Jewish martyrology such as former Nazi death camps and concentration camps turned into state museums.…
Read moreJohann Albrecht Siegwitz
Johann Albrecht Siegwitz (surname also victories joke; Born in Bamberg, Dead in 1756 or later, probably in Breslau) was a German sculptor, the first in Prague worked and from 1724 mainly in Wroclaw. Life His exact life dates are not known yet. It is possible that he learned his profession…
Read moreRenewable energy
Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. Renewable energy often provides energy in four important areas: electricity generation, air and water heating/cooling, transportation, and rural (off-grid) energy services. Renewables…
Read moreContemporary Indigenous Australian art
Contemporary Indigenous Australian art is the modern art work produced by Indigenous Australians, that is, Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people. It is generally regarded as beginning in 1971 with a painting movement that started at Papunya, northwest of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, involving Aboriginal artists such as Clifford…
Read moreThe Little Museum of Dublin, Ireland
The Little Museum of Dublin is a people’s museum of Dublin, situated at 15 St. Stephens Green, Dublin, Ireland. The museum is located in an 18th-century Georgian town house owned by Dublin City Council. As a civic museum for the city of Dublin, the Little Museum chronicles the history of…
Read more19 Kilometers from Auschwitz, Yad Vashem
The Story of the Jewish Community of Trzebinia, Poland On the eve of WWII, about 1,500 Jews lived in Trzebinia, Poland a community that flourished with creativity and culture, religion and tradition, social life and politics.On 29 May 1942 the deportation of the Jews of Trzebinia began. That day, SS…
Read moreSant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelonès, Catalonia, Spain
The town of Sant Adria de Besos is a municipality in the county of Barcelonès within the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Sant Adrià de Besòs (3.87 km2) is the municipality located at the mouth of the river Besòs, between the municipalities of Barcelona, Santa Coloma de Gramenet and Badalona, with…
Read moreGuide Tour of Gustave-Moreau Museum, Paris, France
The Gustave-Moreau Museum is a national museum located at 14, rue Catherine de La Rochefoucauld, in Paris 9th, dedicated to the works of Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau. The museum keeps a total of around 14,000 works. Most of his studio collection is exhibited there, nearly 850 of his paintings or…
Read moreMaresme Travel Guide, Barcelona Metropolitan Area, Catalonia, Spain
The Maresme is one of the counties of Catalonia. It is located between the Mediterranean Sea and the river Tordera (north) and the town of Montgat (included in the region, south). On the other side of its northern border, past the river Tordera, is the town of Blanes, where the…
Read moreMuseum Nasional Indonesia
The National Museum of Indonesia is an archeological, historical, ethnological, and geographical museum located in Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat, Central Jakarta, right on the west side of Merdeka Square. Popularly known as Elephant Building (Indonesian: Gedung Gajah) after the elephant statue in its forecourt. Its broad collections cover all of…
Read moreReza Abbasi
Reza Abbasi (1565 – 1635), was the leading Persian miniaturist of the Isfahan School during the later Safavid period, spending most of his career working for Shah Abbas I He is considered to be the last great master of the Persian miniature, best known for his single miniatures for muraqqa…
Read moreRenaissance Theater
The Renaissance theater is the union of dramaturgical genres and different forms of theater written and practiced in Europe in the late Middle Ages and the beginning of modern age. In this period there is a phenomenon of rebirth of the theater, prepared by the long medieval theatrical tradition that…
Read moreSichuan Ethnic Collection, Sichuan Museum
The Sichuan Museum has more than 7,000 ethnic cultural relics, and the ethnic cultural relics on display are selected, including the Yi, Tibetan, Yi, Miao, Hui, Mongolian, Tujia and other 14 ethnic minority handicrafts. Religious utensils, costumes, daily necessities, daily necessities, tools, musical instruments, weapons, etc., string together the culture,…
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