Hedemora, in southern Dalarna, received its city rights in 1446, but was already a marketplace and focal point for medieval iron and copper management, including from Garpenberg and Vikaberg. The oldest building in today’s Hedemora is unequivocally the church, whose oldest parts are from the late 1200s or early 1300s.…
Bank of Brazil Museum in Brasilia the history of the country through a collection acquired throughout its history. Located in the Tancredo Neves building, in Brasília, one of the most imposing works by architect Oscar Niemeyer, where the CCBB is located. The project was launched with the exhibition “Collections of…
The west corridor houses other rooms that face directly. These rooms, after the opening of the new rooms on the ground floor, are almost all re-finished. The Niobe room has been closed from spring 2011 to December 21st 2012 due to restoration work. Room 35 Baroque and Tuscan Counter-Reformation Room…
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Seville, 1617 – April 3, 1682) was an Andalusian painter from the 17th century. Formed in late naturalism, he evolved into Baroque-style formulas full of sensitivity that Rococo sometimes anticipates in some of the His most peculiar and imitated iconographic creations. He is best known for his…
The Color Naming System (CNS) is a systematic notation for named colors for computer applications using English terms created by Berk et al. in 1982. System CNS uses ten color names, three of which (black, white, gray) are special, and has them combined or prefixed with several modifiers. The system…
A problem picture is a genre of art popular in late Victorian painting, characterised by the deliberately ambiguous depiction of a key moment in a narrative that can be interpreted in several different ways, or which portrays an unresolved dilemma. It has some relation to the problem play. The viewer…
Brown is a composite color which can be produced by combining red, yellow, and black pigments, or by a combination of orange and black—as can be seen in the color box at right. The color brown shown at right has a hue code of 30, signifying that is a shade…
Centuries before the Ottoman conquest of Bosnia, Mostar was a small hamlet situated at a strategic crossing of the Neretva River. Its hinterlands consisted of a broad agricultural plain on the west bank and steep terraces on the east bank surrounded by barren mountains. Mostar was a representative multi-ethnic and…
A mosque (Arabic: مَـسْـجِـد) is a place of worship for Muslims. There are strict and detailed requirements in Sunni jurisprudence (Arabic: فِـقْـه, fiqh) for a place of worship to be considered a mosque, with places that do not meet these requirements regarded as musallas. There are stringent restrictions on the…
The CIE RGB color space is one of many RGB color spaces, distinguished by a particular set of monochromatic (single-wavelength) primary colors. In the 1920s, W. David Wright and John Guild independently conducted a series of experiments on human sight which laid the foundation for the specification of the CIE…
Contour crafting is a building printing technology being researched by Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute (in the Viterbi School of Engineering) that uses a computer-controlled crane or gantry to build edifices rapidly and efficiently with substantially less manual labor. It was originally conceived as…
Warsaw Rising Museum (Polish: Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego), is dedicated to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. The Warsaw Rising Museum was opened on the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of fighting in Warsaw. The Museum is a tribute of Warsaw’s residents to those who fought and died for independent Poland and…
Frederician Rococo is a form of rococo, which developed in Prussia during the reign of Frederick the Great and combined influences from France, Germany (especially Saxony) and the Netherlands. Its most famous adherent was the architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff. Furthermore, the painter Antoine Pesne and even King Frederick himself…
Belém Tower (Portuguese: Torre de Belém), officially the Tower of Saint Vincent (Portuguese: Torre de São Vicente) is a 16th-century fortification located in Lisbon that served both as a fortress and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon. It was built during the height of the Portuguese Renaissance, and is a…
The Peredvizhniki (Russian: Передви́жники，The Partnership of Traveling Art Exhibitions), is an association of Russian artists that arose in the last third of the 19th century and existed until 1923. In aesthetic terms, the Partnership participants, or Wanderers, until the 1890s purposefully opposed themselves to academics. They claimed to be inspired…
The Luigi Marzoli Arms Museum, located in the Mastonte Visconteo of Brescia Castle, displays collections of ancient European weapons. The keep – one of the oldest portions of the castle, built by the Visconti in the fourteenth century, and an imposing part of Cidneo Hill’s surviving fortifications – houses the…
Income Inequality is the extent at which household income is unevenly distributed amongst a population. In other words, it also refers to the gap in income between who can be considered the rich of the population as opposed to the income of those who can be considered the poor of…
An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable. A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character. Most architecture can be classified as a chronology of styles which changes over time reflecting…
Fresco (plural frescos or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid, or wet lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall.…
The Palais Bourbon is a government building located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, on the left bank of the Seine, across from the Place de la Concorde. It is the seat of the French National Assembly, the lower legislative chamber of the French government. The centre of parliamentary life,…
Additive color is a method to create color by mixing a number of different light colors, with shades of red, green, and blue being the most common primary colors used in additive color system. Additive color is in contrast to subtractive color, in which colors are created by subtracting (absorbing)…
Prince Grigory Grigorievich Gagarin (11 May 1810 – 30 January 1893) was a Russian painter, Major General and administrator. Grigory Gagarin was born in Saint Petersburg to the noble Rurikid princely Gagarin family. His father, Prince Grigory Ivanovich Gagarin, was a Russian diplomat in France and later the ambassador to…
Domes built in the 19th and 20th centuries benefited from more efficient techniques for producing iron and steel as well as advances in structural analysis. Metal-framed domes of the 19th century often imitated earlier masonry dome designs in a variety of styles, especially in church architecture, but were also used…
Lanyon Homestead lies at the foot of the Brindabella Ranges and is one of Australia’s premier historic properties. The Precinct’s centrepiece, the 1850’s Homestead, has been beautifully restored and furnished. Set within superb gardens the Lanyon includes an historic homestead and outbuildings sited within a working rural property. Sheep and…
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Architecture of Hedemora
Hedemora, in southern Dalarna, received its city rights in 1446, but was already a marketplace and focal point for medieval iron and copper management, including from Garpenberg and Vikaberg. The oldest building in today’s Hedemora is unequivocally the church, whose oldest parts are from the late 1200s or early 1300s.…
Read moreCollections of Brazil: History, Culture and Citizenship, Bank of Brazil Museum in Brasili
Bank of Brazil Museum in Brasilia the history of the country through a collection acquired throughout its history. Located in the Tancredo Neves building, in Brasília, one of the most imposing works by architect Oscar Niemeyer, where the CCBB is located. The project was launched with the exhibition “Collections of…
Read moreHalls of the west corridor, Uffizi Gallery
The west corridor houses other rooms that face directly. These rooms, after the opening of the new rooms on the ground floor, are almost all re-finished. The Niobe room has been closed from spring 2011 to December 21st 2012 due to restoration work. Room 35 Baroque and Tuscan Counter-Reformation Room…
Read moreBartolomé Esteban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Seville, 1617 – April 3, 1682) was an Andalusian painter from the 17th century. Formed in late naturalism, he evolved into Baroque-style formulas full of sensitivity that Rococo sometimes anticipates in some of the His most peculiar and imitated iconographic creations. He is best known for his…
Read moreColor Naming System
The Color Naming System (CNS) is a systematic notation for named colors for computer applications using English terms created by Berk et al. in 1982. System CNS uses ten color names, three of which (black, white, gray) are special, and has them combined or prefixed with several modifiers. The system…
Read moreProblem picture
A problem picture is a genre of art popular in late Victorian painting, characterised by the deliberately ambiguous depiction of a key moment in a narrative that can be interpreted in several different ways, or which portrays an unresolved dilemma. It has some relation to the problem play. The viewer…
Read moreShades of brown
Brown is a composite color which can be produced by combining red, yellow, and black pigments, or by a combination of orange and black—as can be seen in the color box at right. The color brown shown at right has a hue code of 30, signifying that is a shade…
Read moreArchitecture of Mostar
Centuries before the Ottoman conquest of Bosnia, Mostar was a small hamlet situated at a strategic crossing of the Neretva River. Its hinterlands consisted of a broad agricultural plain on the west bank and steep terraces on the east bank surrounded by barren mountains. Mostar was a representative multi-ethnic and…
Read moreMosque
A mosque (Arabic: مَـسْـجِـد) is a place of worship for Muslims. There are strict and detailed requirements in Sunni jurisprudence (Arabic: فِـقْـه, fiqh) for a place of worship to be considered a mosque, with places that do not meet these requirements regarded as musallas. There are stringent restrictions on the…
Read moreCIE RGB color space
The CIE RGB color space is one of many RGB color spaces, distinguished by a particular set of monochromatic (single-wavelength) primary colors. In the 1920s, W. David Wright and John Guild independently conducted a series of experiments on human sight which laid the foundation for the specification of the CIE…
Read moreContour crafting
Contour crafting is a building printing technology being researched by Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute (in the Viterbi School of Engineering) that uses a computer-controlled crane or gantry to build edifices rapidly and efficiently with substantially less manual labor. It was originally conceived as…
Read moreWarsaw Uprising Museum, Poland
Warsaw Rising Museum (Polish: Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego), is dedicated to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. The Warsaw Rising Museum was opened on the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of fighting in Warsaw. The Museum is a tribute of Warsaw’s residents to those who fought and died for independent Poland and…
Read moreFrederician Rococo
Frederician Rococo is a form of rococo, which developed in Prussia during the reign of Frederick the Great and combined influences from France, Germany (especially Saxony) and the Netherlands. Its most famous adherent was the architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff. Furthermore, the painter Antoine Pesne and even King Frederick himself…
Read moreBelém Tower, Lisbon, Portugal
Belém Tower (Portuguese: Torre de Belém), officially the Tower of Saint Vincent (Portuguese: Torre de São Vicente) is a 16th-century fortification located in Lisbon that served both as a fortress and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon. It was built during the height of the Portuguese Renaissance, and is a…
Read morePeredvizhniki
The Peredvizhniki (Russian: Передви́жники，The Partnership of Traveling Art Exhibitions), is an association of Russian artists that arose in the last third of the 19th century and existed until 1923. In aesthetic terms, the Partnership participants, or Wanderers, until the 1890s purposefully opposed themselves to academics. They claimed to be inspired…
Read moreLuigi Marzoli Museum of Weapons, Brescia, Italy
The Luigi Marzoli Arms Museum, located in the Mastonte Visconteo of Brescia Castle, displays collections of ancient European weapons. The keep – one of the oldest portions of the castle, built by the Visconti in the fourteenth century, and an imposing part of Cidneo Hill’s surviving fortifications – houses the…
Read moreIncome inequality in the Philippines
Income Inequality is the extent at which household income is unevenly distributed amongst a population. In other words, it also refers to the gap in income between who can be considered the rich of the population as opposed to the income of those who can be considered the poor of…
Read moreList of architectural styles
An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable. A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character. Most architecture can be classified as a chronology of styles which changes over time reflecting…
Read moreFresco painting
Fresco (plural frescos or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid, or wet lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall.…
Read morePalais Bourbon, Paris, France
The Palais Bourbon is a government building located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, on the left bank of the Seine, across from the Place de la Concorde. It is the seat of the French National Assembly, the lower legislative chamber of the French government. The centre of parliamentary life,…
Read moreAdditive color
Additive color is a method to create color by mixing a number of different light colors, with shades of red, green, and blue being the most common primary colors used in additive color system. Additive color is in contrast to subtractive color, in which colors are created by subtracting (absorbing)…
Read moreGrigory Gagarin
Prince Grigory Grigorievich Gagarin (11 May 1810 – 30 January 1893) was a Russian painter, Major General and administrator. Grigory Gagarin was born in Saint Petersburg to the noble Rurikid princely Gagarin family. His father, Prince Grigory Ivanovich Gagarin, was a Russian diplomat in France and later the ambassador to…
Read moreHistory of modern period domes
Domes built in the 19th and 20th centuries benefited from more efficient techniques for producing iron and steel as well as advances in structural analysis. Metal-framed domes of the 19th century often imitated earlier masonry dome designs in a variety of styles, especially in church architecture, but were also used…
Read moreLanyon Homestead, Tharwa, Australia
Lanyon Homestead lies at the foot of the Brindabella Ranges and is one of Australia’s premier historic properties. The Precinct’s centrepiece, the 1850’s Homestead, has been beautifully restored and furnished. Set within superb gardens the Lanyon includes an historic homestead and outbuildings sited within a working rural property. Sheep and…
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