The Gettysburg National Military Park protects and interprets the landscape of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the park is managed by the National Park Service. The GNMP properties include most of the Gettysburg Battlefield, many of the battle’s support areas during…
Chromolithography is a unique method for making multi-colour prints. This type of colour printing stemmed from the process of lithography, and includes all types of lithography that are printed in colour. When chromolithography is used to reproduce photographs, the term photochrome is frequently used. Lithographers sought to find a way…
New Sincerity (closely related to and sometimes described as synonymous with post-postmodernism) is a trend in music, aesthetics, literary fiction, film criticism, poetry, literary criticism and philosophy. It generally describes creative works that expand upon and break away from concepts of postmodernist irony and cynicism, representing a partial return to…
Responsive architecture is an evolving field of architectural practice and research. Responsive architectures are those that measure actual environmental conditions (via sensors) to enable buildings to adapt their form, shape, color or character responsively (via actuators). Responsive architectures aim to refine and extend the discipline of architecture by improving the…
Wilton’s produces imaginative, distinctive work that has roots in the early music hall tradition but reinterpreted for an audience of today, which means presenting a diverse and distinct programme including opera, puppetry, classical music, cabaret, dance, and magic. Situated at the heart of the historic East End within easy walking…
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (Bologna, 1606 – November 28, 1680), was an Italian architect and painter, named Il Bolognese from the place of his birth. Grimaldi was a relative of the Carracci family, under whom it is presumed he first apprenticed. Painter mainly of stories and landscapes, with strong color and…
The Palazzo Fortuny is a palazzo gothic of Venice located in the district of San Marco. It takes its name from the last owner, the artist Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo , and is home to the museum of the same name. Today the museum is part of the Venice Civic…
The concept of video games as a form of art is a controversial topic within the entertainment industry. Though video games have been afforded legal protection as creative works by the Supreme Court of the United States, the philosophical proposition that video games are works of art remains in question,…
The Architecture of Central Asia, which is generally considered as comprising Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan has been influenced by a diverse array of architectural traditions such as Russian architecture during the eras of tsarist and Soviet rule, Islamic architecture which came earlier, Persian architecture, and Chinese architecture.…
The palace of Pedro I, also called the palace of King Don Pedro and the Mudéjar palace, is part of the monumental complex of the Royal Alcázar of Seville. It was built next to the Gothic palace of Alfonso Xat the initiative of King Pedro I, between 1356 and 1366,…
The El Carmen Museum is located in the south of Mexico City and is dedicated to the history of the daily life of the order of the Barefoot Carmelites, as well as to house a novohispano art gallery with outstanding works by Cristóbal de Villalpando and Miguel Cabrera, among others.…
Museo Juan Cabré is a Museum of Archeology in Calaceite, in the southeast of Aragon (Spain). The Juan Cabré Museum, located inside the historic center of Calaceite, where the archeologist and painter Juan Cabré was born. The Juan Cabré Museum. Located in an old restored house, it houses the archaeological,…
In architecture, a cloister vault or domical vault is a vault with four concave surfaces (patches of cylinders) meeting at a point above the center of the vault. It can be thought of as formed by two barrel vaults that cross at right angles to each other: the open space…
Ponce Creole is an architectural style created in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in the late 19th and early 20th century. This style of Puerto Rican buildings is found predominantly in residential homes in Ponce that developed between 1895 and 1920. Ponce Creole architecture borrows heavily from the traditions of the French,…
The Gardens of the French Renaissance is a garden style, initially inspired by the Italian Renaissance garden, which evolved later into the grander and more formal Garden à la française during the reign of Louis XIV, by the middle of the 17th century. In 1495, King Charles VIII and his…
Global Sources Fashion show, Hong Kong’s largest fashion sourcing event, last from April 27 to April 30 at AsiaWorld-Expo. With fashion accessories, footwear, fabrics, underwear and apparel all under one roof, sourcing show for innovative and in-demand gifts, premiums, home products, fashion accessories, apparel and fabricsit’s an unmissable industry event…
The Mie Prefectural Museum of Art, which opened as the first full-scale art museum in the Chubu and Tokai districts, has a rich collection of modern Japanese Western paintings. Room 1: Named after Hiromitsu Nakazawa-Special Exhibition 1. Meiji Taisho watercolor painting Hiromitsu Nakazawa (中澤弘光) was known for his oil paintings…
The Permanent exhibition encompasses several facets of the African and Afro-Brazilian cultural universes, addressing themes such as religion, work, art, the African diaspora and slavery, and recording the historical trajectory and African influences in the construction ofBrazilian society. With over 6,000 works, including paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, documents and ethnological…
Baggage carts, luggage trolleys or trolleys are small vehicles pushed by travelers (human-powered) to carry individual luggage, mostly suitcases. There are two major sizes: One for big luggage and one for small luggage. Carts have usually two parts for carrying luggage: A small section (basket) for carry on luggage at…
Technical drawing, drafting or drawing, is the act and discipline of composing drawings that visually communicate how something functions or is constructed. Technical drawing – also known as industrial drawing – is a figurative graphic language for representation, technical communication, design and systemic analysis of mechanical, electronic or mechatronic products.…
Jean-Louis Forain (born in Reims on October 23, 1852, and died in Paris on July 11, 1931), was a French Impressionist painter, lithographer, watercolorist and etcher. Influenced by Impressionist theories on light and color, he preferred to depict scenes of everyday life: his watercolors, pastels, and paintings focused on Parisian…
Renaissance music is vocal and instrumental music written and performed in Europe during the Renaissance era. Consensus among music historians has been to start the era around 1400, with the end of the medieval era, and to close it around 1600, with the beginning of the Baroque period, therefore commencing…
Andean Baroque (Spanish: Barroco andino or arquitectura mestiza) is an artistic movement that appeared in the Viceroyalty of Peru (South America) between 1680 and 1780. It is located geographically between Arequipa and Lake Titicaca in what is now Peru and Bolivia, where rules over the highlands and spreads over the…
The top floor of the museum is devoted entirely to Lucio Fontana. The Fontana Hall was designed as an environmental immersion work. The protagonists are the landmark Ceiling from 1956, initially created for the dining room of the Hotel del Golfo on the Island of Elba and granted by the…
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Gettysburg National Military Park, United States
The Gettysburg National Military Park protects and interprets the landscape of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the park is managed by the National Park Service. The GNMP properties include most of the Gettysburg Battlefield, many of the battle’s support areas during…
Read moreChromolithography
Chromolithography is a unique method for making multi-colour prints. This type of colour printing stemmed from the process of lithography, and includes all types of lithography that are printed in colour. When chromolithography is used to reproduce photographs, the term photochrome is frequently used. Lithographers sought to find a way…
Read moreNew Sincerity
New Sincerity (closely related to and sometimes described as synonymous with post-postmodernism) is a trend in music, aesthetics, literary fiction, film criticism, poetry, literary criticism and philosophy. It generally describes creative works that expand upon and break away from concepts of postmodernist irony and cynicism, representing a partial return to…
Read moreResponsive architecture
Responsive architecture is an evolving field of architectural practice and research. Responsive architectures are those that measure actual environmental conditions (via sensors) to enable buildings to adapt their form, shape, color or character responsively (via actuators). Responsive architectures aim to refine and extend the discipline of architecture by improving the…
Read moreSaving Wilton’s Music Hall
Wilton’s produces imaginative, distinctive work that has roots in the early music hall tradition but reinterpreted for an audience of today, which means presenting a diverse and distinct programme including opera, puppetry, classical music, cabaret, dance, and magic. Situated at the heart of the historic East End within easy walking…
Read moreGiovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (Bologna, 1606 – November 28, 1680), was an Italian architect and painter, named Il Bolognese from the place of his birth. Grimaldi was a relative of the Carracci family, under whom it is presumed he first apprenticed. Painter mainly of stories and landscapes, with strong color and…
Read moreFortuny Palace, Venice, Italy
The Palazzo Fortuny is a palazzo gothic of Venice located in the district of San Marco. It takes its name from the last owner, the artist Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo , and is home to the museum of the same name. Today the museum is part of the Venice Civic…
Read moreVideo games as an art form
The concept of video games as a form of art is a controversial topic within the entertainment industry. Though video games have been afforded legal protection as creative works by the Supreme Court of the United States, the philosophical proposition that video games are works of art remains in question,…
Read moreArchitecture of Central Asia
The Architecture of Central Asia, which is generally considered as comprising Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan has been influenced by a diverse array of architectural traditions such as Russian architecture during the eras of tsarist and Soviet rule, Islamic architecture which came earlier, Persian architecture, and Chinese architecture.…
Read morePalace of Pedro I, Royal Alcazar of Seville
The palace of Pedro I, also called the palace of King Don Pedro and the Mudéjar palace, is part of the monumental complex of the Royal Alcázar of Seville. It was built next to the Gothic palace of Alfonso Xat the initiative of King Pedro I, between 1356 and 1366,…
Read moreEl Carmen Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
The El Carmen Museum is located in the south of Mexico City and is dedicated to the history of the daily life of the order of the Barefoot Carmelites, as well as to house a novohispano art gallery with outstanding works by Cristóbal de Villalpando and Miguel Cabrera, among others.…
Read moreMuseo Juan Cabré, Calaceite, Spain
Museo Juan Cabré is a Museum of Archeology in Calaceite, in the southeast of Aragon (Spain). The Juan Cabré Museum, located inside the historic center of Calaceite, where the archeologist and painter Juan Cabré was born. The Juan Cabré Museum. Located in an old restored house, it houses the archaeological,…
Read moreCloister vault
In architecture, a cloister vault or domical vault is a vault with four concave surfaces (patches of cylinders) meeting at a point above the center of the vault. It can be thought of as formed by two barrel vaults that cross at right angles to each other: the open space…
Read morePonce Creole
Ponce Creole is an architectural style created in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in the late 19th and early 20th century. This style of Puerto Rican buildings is found predominantly in residential homes in Ponce that developed between 1895 and 1920. Ponce Creole architecture borrows heavily from the traditions of the French,…
Read moreGardens of the French Renaissance
The Gardens of the French Renaissance is a garden style, initially inspired by the Italian Renaissance garden, which evolved later into the grander and more formal Garden à la française during the reign of Louis XIV, by the middle of the 17th century. In 1495, King Charles VIII and his…
Read moreReview of Global Sources Fashion show 2018 April, Hong Kong, China
Global Sources Fashion show, Hong Kong’s largest fashion sourcing event, last from April 27 to April 30 at AsiaWorld-Expo. With fashion accessories, footwear, fabrics, underwear and apparel all under one roof, sourcing show for innovative and in-demand gifts, premiums, home products, fashion accessories, apparel and fabricsit’s an unmissable industry event…
Read morePermanent exhibition, Mie Prefectural Museum of Art
The Mie Prefectural Museum of Art, which opened as the first full-scale art museum in the Chubu and Tokai districts, has a rich collection of modern Japanese Western paintings. Room 1: Named after Hiromitsu Nakazawa-Special Exhibition 1. Meiji Taisho watercolor painting Hiromitsu Nakazawa (中澤弘光) was known for his oil paintings…
Read moreLong term Exhibitions, Afro Brasil Museum
The Permanent exhibition encompasses several facets of the African and Afro-Brazilian cultural universes, addressing themes such as religion, work, art, the African diaspora and slavery, and recording the historical trajectory and African influences in the construction ofBrazilian society. With over 6,000 works, including paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, documents and ethnological…
Read moreBaggage cart
Baggage carts, luggage trolleys or trolleys are small vehicles pushed by travelers (human-powered) to carry individual luggage, mostly suitcases. There are two major sizes: One for big luggage and one for small luggage. Carts have usually two parts for carrying luggage: A small section (basket) for carry on luggage at…
Read moreTechnical Drawing
Technical drawing, drafting or drawing, is the act and discipline of composing drawings that visually communicate how something functions or is constructed. Technical drawing – also known as industrial drawing – is a figurative graphic language for representation, technical communication, design and systemic analysis of mechanical, electronic or mechatronic products.…
Read moreJean-Louis Forain
Jean-Louis Forain (born in Reims on October 23, 1852, and died in Paris on July 11, 1931), was a French Impressionist painter, lithographer, watercolorist and etcher. Influenced by Impressionist theories on light and color, he preferred to depict scenes of everyday life: his watercolors, pastels, and paintings focused on Parisian…
Read moreRenaissance music
Renaissance music is vocal and instrumental music written and performed in Europe during the Renaissance era. Consensus among music historians has been to start the era around 1400, with the end of the medieval era, and to close it around 1600, with the beginning of the Baroque period, therefore commencing…
Read moreAndean Baroque
Andean Baroque (Spanish: Barroco andino or arquitectura mestiza) is an artistic movement that appeared in the Viceroyalty of Peru (South America) between 1680 and 1780. It is located geographically between Arequipa and Lake Titicaca in what is now Peru and Bolivia, where rules over the highlands and spreads over the…
Read moreRoom of Lucio Fontana, Museum of the Twentieth Century
The top floor of the museum is devoted entirely to Lucio Fontana. The Fontana Hall was designed as an environmental immersion work. The protagonists are the landmark Ceiling from 1956, initially created for the dining room of the Hotel del Golfo on the Island of Elba and granted by the…
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