Fashion in the twenty years between 1775–1795 in Western culture became simpler and less elaborate. These changes were a result of emerging modern ideals of selfhood, the declining fashionability of highly elaborate Rococo styles, and the widespread embrace of the rationalistic or “classical” ideals of Enlightenment philosophes. Enlightenment concept of…
Seville has a monumental wealth of great architectural and tourist value in which a series of monuments stand out. Main buildings Reales Alcázares The Alcazar of Seville began to look like it is today after the year 713, when the city was conquered by the Arabs, who used it as…
Elizabethan Baroque (Russian: Елизаветинское барокко) is a term for the Russian baroque architectural style, developed during the reign of Elizabeth of Russia, between 1741 and 1762. It is also called ‘style rocaille’ or ‘rococo style’. The Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli is the key figure of this trend, which is…
Friends of Johnson raised the money to buy the land across the Pedernales River from Johnson’s Ranch (now part of the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park) for the park and donated the land to the State of Texas in 1965. The 269-acre (109 ha) facility was officially dedicated in…
Color photography is photography that uses media capable of reproducing colors. By contrast, black-and-white (monochrome) photography records only a single channel of luminance (brightness) and uses media capable only of showing shades of gray. In color photography, electronic sensors or light-sensitive chemicals record color information at the time of exposure.…
Islamic art encompasses the visual arts produced from the 7th century onward by people who lived within the territory that was inhabited by or ruled by culturally Islamic populations. Art produced in the context of the Islamic world has a certain stylistic unity due to the movements of artists, merchants,…
French Baroque architecture, sometimes called French classicism, was a style of architecture during the reigns of Louis XIII (1610–43), Louis XIV (1643–1715) and Louis XV (1715–74). It was preceded by the French Renaissance and Mannerism styles, and was followed in the second half of the 18th century by Neo-classicism. The…
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…
Chinese calligraphy and painting has a long history and has formed distinctive national characteristics in historical development. It is an important asset of Chinese traditional national culture. Sichuan’s calligraphy and painting art has a profound tradition. Since the Tang Dynasty, some Kyoto and foreign painters have come with Tang Xuanzong…
Ashlar is finely dressed (cut, worked) masonry, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared or the masonry built of such stone. It is the finest stone masonry unit, generally cuboid, mentioned by Vitruvius as opus isodomum, or less frequently trapezoidal. Precisely cut “on all faces adjacent to…
The Corridor on the Arno, spectacular for the views of the Ponte Vecchio, the river and the hills south of Florence, has been home for centuries the best works of ancient statuary, because of the spectacularity of the setting and the maximum brightness (in fact, south). The frescoes on the…
Hongkong Gifts & Premium Fair, the world’s largest event of its kind, providing an ideal platform for marketing, trade, promotion,and an opportunity to develop potential contacts and alliances with international suppliers and buyers alike. The Hong Kong Gifts & Premium Fair serves as an ideal one-stop marketing and sourcing international…
Historical American art collection of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts represents three centuries of cultural exchange and development. With more than 2,700 objects ranging from the late 17th through the mid-20th century, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—with particular strengths in works by women and…
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach. On the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of the publication of Luther’s theses, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München are presenting key works of German art from around 1500…
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 Valentine has been collecting, preserving and interpreting Richmond’s 400-year history for over a century. Located in the heart of historic downtown, the Valentine is a place for residents and tourists to discover the diverse stories that tell the broader history of this important region. The Valentine (formerly known as…
End of the century, which reveals how the Spanish painting of the late nineteenth century began to openly dialogue with international painting. Joaquín Sorolla , Aureliano de Beruete , Darío de Regoyos , Ramón Casas , Ricard Canals , Francisco Iturrino or José Gutiérrez Solana are some of its exponents.…
Structural health monitoring (SHM) refers to the process of implementing a damage detection and characterization strategy for engineering structures. Here damage is defined as changes to the material and/or geometric properties of a structural system, including changes to the boundary conditions and system connectivity, which adversely affect the system’s performance.…
The First national architectural movement (Turkish: Birinci Ulusal Mimarlık Akımı), also referred to in Turkey as the National architectural Renaissance (Turkish: Millî Mimari Rönesansı), or Turkish Neoclassical architecture was a period of Turkish architecture that was most prevalent between 1908 and 1930 but continued until the end of the 1930s.…
A demosaicing (also de-mosaicing, demosaicking or debayering) algorithm is a digital image process used to reconstruct a full color image from the incomplete color samples output from an image sensor overlaid with a color filter array (CFA). It is also known as CFA interpolation or color reconstruction. Most modern digital…
During the Tang dynasty, as a golden age in Chinese civilization, Chinese painting developed dramatically, both in subject matter and technique. The advancements in technique and style that characterized Tang painting had a lasting influence in the art of other countries, especially in East Asia (Korea, Japan, Vietnam) and central…
Design tools are objects, media, or computer programs, which can be used to design. They may influence the process of production, expression and perception of design ideas and therefore need to be applied skillfully. Objects New ideas can come by way of experimenting with tools and methods. Some designers explore…
Indianism is a Brazilian literary and artistic movement that reached its peak during the first stages of Romanticism, though it had been present in Brazilian literature since the Baroque period. While in the European continent the romantics idealized the medieval knight, in this indigenous nation, since in Brazil the historical…
In art, a cloudscape is the depiction of a view of clouds or the sky. Usually, as in the examples seen here, the clouds are depicted as viewed from the earth, often including just enough of a landscape to suggest scale, orientation, weather conditions, and distance (through the application of…
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Western Fashion History 1775–1795
Fashion in the twenty years between 1775–1795 in Western culture became simpler and less elaborate. These changes were a result of emerging modern ideals of selfhood, the declining fashionability of highly elaborate Rococo styles, and the widespread embrace of the rationalistic or “classical” ideals of Enlightenment philosophes. Enlightenment concept of…
Read moreArchitecture of Seville
Seville has a monumental wealth of great architectural and tourist value in which a series of monuments stand out. Main buildings Reales Alcázares The Alcazar of Seville began to look like it is today after the year 713, when the city was conquered by the Arabs, who used it as…
Read moreElizabethan Baroque
Elizabethan Baroque (Russian: Елизаветинское барокко) is a term for the Russian baroque architectural style, developed during the reign of Elizabeth of Russia, between 1741 and 1762. It is also called ‘style rocaille’ or ‘rococo style’. The Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli is the key figure of this trend, which is…
Read moreLyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Austin, TX, United States
Friends of Johnson raised the money to buy the land across the Pedernales River from Johnson’s Ranch (now part of the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park) for the park and donated the land to the State of Texas in 1965. The 269-acre (109 ha) facility was officially dedicated in…
Read moreHistory of Color photography
Color photography is photography that uses media capable of reproducing colors. By contrast, black-and-white (monochrome) photography records only a single channel of luminance (brightness) and uses media capable only of showing shades of gray. In color photography, electronic sensors or light-sensitive chemicals record color information at the time of exposure.…
Read moreIslamic art
Islamic art encompasses the visual arts produced from the 7th century onward by people who lived within the territory that was inhabited by or ruled by culturally Islamic populations. Art produced in the context of the Islamic world has a certain stylistic unity due to the movements of artists, merchants,…
Read moreFrench Baroque architecture
French Baroque architecture, sometimes called French classicism, was a style of architecture during the reigns of Louis XIII (1610–43), Louis XIV (1643–1715) and Louis XV (1715–74). It was preceded by the French Renaissance and Mannerism styles, and was followed in the second half of the 18th century by Neo-classicism. The…
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 morePainting and Calligraphy Collection, Sichuan Museum
Chinese calligraphy and painting has a long history and has formed distinctive national characteristics in historical development. It is an important asset of Chinese traditional national culture. Sichuan’s calligraphy and painting art has a profound tradition. Since the Tang Dynasty, some Kyoto and foreign painters have come with Tang Xuanzong…
Read moreAshlar
Ashlar is finely dressed (cut, worked) masonry, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared or the masonry built of such stone. It is the finest stone masonry unit, generally cuboid, mentioned by Vitruvius as opus isodomum, or less frequently trapezoidal. Precisely cut “on all faces adjacent to…
Read moreCorridor on the Arno and West Corridor, Uffizi Gallery
The Corridor on the Arno, spectacular for the views of the Ponte Vecchio, the river and the hills south of Florence, has been home for centuries the best works of ancient statuary, because of the spectacularity of the setting and the maximum brightness (in fact, south). The frescoes on the…
Read moreReview of Hong Kong Gifts & Premium Fair, 2011-2014, China
Hongkong Gifts & Premium Fair, the world’s largest event of its kind, providing an ideal platform for marketing, trade, promotion,and an opportunity to develop potential contacts and alliances with international suppliers and buyers alike. The Hong Kong Gifts & Premium Fair serves as an ideal one-stop marketing and sourcing international…
Read moreAmerican Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Historical American art collection of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts represents three centuries of cultural exchange and development. With more than 2,700 objects ranging from the late 17th through the mid-20th century, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—with particular strengths in works by women and…
Read moreRenaissance and Reformation, German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach. On the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of the publication of Luther’s theses, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München are presenting key works of German art from around 1500…
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 moreThe Valentine Museum, Richmond, United States
The Valentine has been collecting, preserving and interpreting Richmond’s 400-year history for over a century. Located in the heart of historic downtown, the Valentine is a place for residents and tourists to discover the diverse stories that tell the broader history of this important region. The Valentine (formerly known as…
Read moreEnd of the century, Carmen Thyssen Museum
End of the century, which reveals how the Spanish painting of the late nineteenth century began to openly dialogue with international painting. Joaquín Sorolla , Aureliano de Beruete , Darío de Regoyos , Ramón Casas , Ricard Canals , Francisco Iturrino or José Gutiérrez Solana are some of its exponents.…
Read moreStructural health monitoring
Structural health monitoring (SHM) refers to the process of implementing a damage detection and characterization strategy for engineering structures. Here damage is defined as changes to the material and/or geometric properties of a structural system, including changes to the boundary conditions and system connectivity, which adversely affect the system’s performance.…
Read moreFirst national architectural movement
The First national architectural movement (Turkish: Birinci Ulusal Mimarlık Akımı), also referred to in Turkey as the National architectural Renaissance (Turkish: Millî Mimari Rönesansı), or Turkish Neoclassical architecture was a period of Turkish architecture that was most prevalent between 1908 and 1930 but continued until the end of the 1930s.…
Read moreDemosaicing
A demosaicing (also de-mosaicing, demosaicking or debayering) algorithm is a digital image process used to reconstruct a full color image from the incomplete color samples output from an image sensor overlaid with a color filter array (CFA). It is also known as CFA interpolation or color reconstruction. Most modern digital…
Read moreTang dynasty painting
During the Tang dynasty, as a golden age in Chinese civilization, Chinese painting developed dramatically, both in subject matter and technique. The advancements in technique and style that characterized Tang painting had a lasting influence in the art of other countries, especially in East Asia (Korea, Japan, Vietnam) and central…
Read moreDesign tool
Design tools are objects, media, or computer programs, which can be used to design. They may influence the process of production, expression and perception of design ideas and therefore need to be applied skillfully. Objects New ideas can come by way of experimenting with tools and methods. Some designers explore…
Read moreIndianism
Indianism is a Brazilian literary and artistic movement that reached its peak during the first stages of Romanticism, though it had been present in Brazilian literature since the Baroque period. While in the European continent the romantics idealized the medieval knight, in this indigenous nation, since in Brazil the historical…
Read moreCloudscape art
In art, a cloudscape is the depiction of a view of clouds or the sky. Usually, as in the examples seen here, the clouds are depicted as viewed from the earth, often including just enough of a landscape to suggest scale, orientation, weather conditions, and distance (through the application of…
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