Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre-dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of Chinese art and ceramics globally. The first pottery was made during the Palaeolithic era. Chinese ceramics range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles, to hand-built pottery vessels fired in bonfires…
Belarusian Gothic (Belarusian беларуская готыка) is the architectural style of ecclesiastical buildings constructed during the 15th and 16th centuries in parts of modern-day Belarus, Lithuania and eastern Poland. Although these buildings have features typical of Gothic architecture such as lofty towers, flying buttresses, pointed arches and vaulted ceilings, they also…
Le Pont-de-Claix is a French commune located in the department of Isère, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Pont de Claix owes its name to the Pont Lesdiguières, a 17th century structure classified as a historic monument and listed among the 7 wonders of Dauphiné. It spans the Drac and connects the…
The Ajanta Caves are 29 (approximately) rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state of India. The caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian art, particularly expressive paintings…
Hiromitsu Nakazawa (中澤弘光 1874-1964) is a western painter, printmaker, oil painter and illustration artist. Former member of the Japan Art Academy. A painter who played an active part in Japanese Western style paintings from the Meiji era to the Showa era. Nakazawa was born in 1874 in Shiba, Tokyo, to…
Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while at the same time sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depend. The desired result is a state of society where living conditions and resource…
The Casino Nobile , which is already a “museum” from an architectural and decorative standpoint, contains a small but excellent museum devoted to pieces of statuary from the Torlonia collection found in the Villa (much of the collection still belongs to the family and is conserved in the palace in…
Christopher “DAZE” Ellis from Museum of the City of New York, United States Founded in 1923 as a private, nonprofit corporation, the Museum of the City of New York celebrates and interprets the city, educating the public about its distinctive character, especially its heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual transformation.…
It is called Byzantine architecture to the architectural style that was in force during the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) since the fall of the Roman Empire of the West in the fifth century. The capital of the Eastern Empire was Constantinople (Constantinopolis or city of Constantine), whose previous name…
Ecosemiotics is a branch of semiotics in its intersection with human ecology that studies the sign relations established by culture, which deal with other living beings, communities, and landscapes. Ecosemiotics is a field of semiotics that explores semiotic processes related to ecological phenomena. In particular, ecosystem semiotics examines the sign…
Alfonso X ruled from 1252 to 1284 In the 13th century, Gothic was a common architectural style in Spain. King Alfonso built his Gothic palace next to the patio of the Cruise. The first news of works in the period of King Alfonso date from March 22, 1254, when he…
The 16th arrondissement of Paris, also known as arrondissement of Passy, is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. With its ornate 19th-century buildings, large avenues, prestigious schools, museums, and various parks. The arrondissement includes part of the Arc de Triomphe, and a concentration of museums…
The basis of this collection is the legacy of the great entrepreneur Heinrich Liebieg (1839-1904), a generous patron, collector and member of the honorary curatorium of the North Bohemian Industrial Museum. Over the years, this unique private collection has been expanded to include the acquisition of the city of Liberec…
Achille Etna Michallon (born October 22, 1796 in Paris, and died in the same city on September 24, 1822) was a French painter. Michallon was the son of the sculptor Claude Michallon. He studied under Jacques-Louis David and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. In 1817, Michallon won the inaugural Prix de Rome…
“Bond”. Solo exhibition by Olga Boldyreff. Olga Boldyreff was born in 1957 in Nantes (France), in a family of Russian immigrants. Her artistic practice is rather a search for identity than just a creating process. While being not quite French and not fully Russian, Boldyreff addresses to the topic of…
To further showcase Hong Kong as an international fashion capital, the inaugural CENTRESTAGE, a brand new fashion promotion and launch platform, was held from 7 to 10 September 2016, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). Organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), the trade show…
Donated by the Mondadori family in 1974 and on permanent display at Palazzo Te since 1983, the collection includes 19 works by Federico Zandomeneghi and 13 by Armando Spadini. The Mondadori family’s decision was prompted by a desire for the public to have access to the paintings collected with such…
Concrete art was an art movement with a strong emphasis on geometrical abstraction. The term was first formulated by Theo van Doesburg and was then used by him in 1930 to define the difference between his vision of art and that of other abstract artists of the time. After his…
The Opéra-National was a Parisian opera company that the French composer Adolphe Adam founded in 1847 to provide an alternative to the two primary French opera companies in Paris, the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique The goals of the new company were to “foster new compositional talent,” revive opéras comiques from…
Xiangqi (Chinese: 象棋), or Chinese chess, is a traditional Chinese strategy board game that is related to chess. It has the largest number of players among chess variants, and is a very popular game in China, Vietnam, and overseas Chinese communities around the world. Understand History Traditional Chinese accounts date…
The Park Güell is a large garden with elements architecture located in the upper part of Barcelona, on the slopes of the Carmel hill overlooking the sea, not far from Tibidabo. It was designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí, the greatest exponent of Catalan modernism, built between 1900 and 1914…
Jozsef Borsos (December 21, 1821 – August 19, 1883) was a Hungarian portrait painter and photographer. He was also renowned for his numerous “genre” paintings and is most often recognized as an artist of the Biedermeier. He finished his studies in Vienna, where he garnered much attention. His portraits of…
As Netherlands enjoys the flower capital of the world, Amsterdam offers a variety of unforgettable flower tours throughout the year, whether it is flower exchanges, the world’s biggest flower markets above water, Keukenhof Gardens, flower greenhouses, and tulip museums. The city is visually, culturally, historically, economically, Of course, there is…
Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic character determined by two distinct factors: the pigmentation of the eye’s iris and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris. In humans, the pigmentation of the iris varies from light brown to black, depending…
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Chinese ceramics
Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre-dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of Chinese art and ceramics globally. The first pottery was made during the Palaeolithic era. Chinese ceramics range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles, to hand-built pottery vessels fired in bonfires…
Read moreBelarusian Gothic
Belarusian Gothic (Belarusian беларуская готыка) is the architectural style of ecclesiastical buildings constructed during the 15th and 16th centuries in parts of modern-day Belarus, Lithuania and eastern Poland. Although these buildings have features typical of Gothic architecture such as lofty towers, flying buttresses, pointed arches and vaulted ceilings, they also…
Read moreLe Pont-de-Claix, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Le Pont-de-Claix is a French commune located in the department of Isère, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Pont de Claix owes its name to the Pont Lesdiguières, a 17th century structure classified as a historic monument and listed among the 7 wonders of Dauphiné. It spans the Drac and connects the…
Read moreCaves of Ajanta
The Ajanta Caves are 29 (approximately) rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state of India. The caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian art, particularly expressive paintings…
Read moreHiromitsu Nakazawa, Artist’s Unknown Trajectory, Mie Prefectural Museum of Art
Hiromitsu Nakazawa (中澤弘光 1874-1964) is a western painter, printmaker, oil painter and illustration artist. Former member of the Japan Art Academy. A painter who played an active part in Japanese Western style paintings from the Meiji era to the Showa era. Nakazawa was born in 1874 in Shiba, Tokyo, to…
Read moreDomains of sustainable development
Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while at the same time sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depend. The desired result is a state of society where living conditions and resource…
Read moreThe upper floor, Museums of Villa Torlonia
The Casino Nobile , which is already a “museum” from an architectural and decorative standpoint, contains a small but excellent museum devoted to pieces of statuary from the Torlonia collection found in the Villa (much of the collection still belongs to the family and is conserved in the palace in…
Read moreChristopher “DAZE” Ellis
Christopher “DAZE” Ellis from Museum of the City of New York, United States Founded in 1923 as a private, nonprofit corporation, the Museum of the City of New York celebrates and interprets the city, educating the public about its distinctive character, especially its heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual transformation.…
Read moreByzantine architecture
It is called Byzantine architecture to the architectural style that was in force during the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) since the fall of the Roman Empire of the West in the fifth century. The capital of the Eastern Empire was Constantinople (Constantinopolis or city of Constantine), whose previous name…
Read moreEcosemiotics
Ecosemiotics is a branch of semiotics in its intersection with human ecology that studies the sign relations established by culture, which deal with other living beings, communities, and landscapes. Ecosemiotics is a field of semiotics that explores semiotic processes related to ecological phenomena. In particular, ecosystem semiotics examines the sign…
Read moreGothic Palace, Royal Alcazar of Seville
Alfonso X ruled from 1252 to 1284 In the 13th century, Gothic was a common architectural style in Spain. King Alfonso built his Gothic palace next to the patio of the Cruise. The first news of works in the period of King Alfonso date from March 22, 1254, when he…
Read moreGuide Tour of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France
The 16th arrondissement of Paris, also known as arrondissement of Passy, is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. With its ornate 19th-century buildings, large avenues, prestigious schools, museums, and various parks. The arrondissement includes part of the Arc de Triomphe, and a concentration of museums…
Read moreHeinrich von Liebieg Collection, Liberec Regional Gallery
The basis of this collection is the legacy of the great entrepreneur Heinrich Liebieg (1839-1904), a generous patron, collector and member of the honorary curatorium of the North Bohemian Industrial Museum. Over the years, this unique private collection has been expanded to include the acquisition of the city of Liberec…
Read moreAchille Etna Michallon
Achille Etna Michallon (born October 22, 1796 in Paris, and died in the same city on September 24, 1822) was a French painter. Michallon was the son of the sculptor Claude Michallon. He studied under Jacques-Louis David and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. In 1817, Michallon won the inaugural Prix de Rome…
Read moreBond, Olga Boldyreff, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
“Bond”. Solo exhibition by Olga Boldyreff. Olga Boldyreff was born in 1957 in Nantes (France), in a family of Russian immigrants. Her artistic practice is rather a search for identity than just a creating process. While being not quite French and not fully Russian, Boldyreff addresses to the topic of…
Read moreHong Kong CENTRESTAGE 2016 ELITES, China
To further showcase Hong Kong as an international fashion capital, the inaugural CENTRESTAGE, a brand new fashion promotion and launch platform, was held from 7 to 10 September 2016, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). Organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), the trade show…
Read moreMondadori Collection, Palazzo Te
Donated by the Mondadori family in 1974 and on permanent display at Palazzo Te since 1983, the collection includes 19 works by Federico Zandomeneghi and 13 by Armando Spadini. The Mondadori family’s decision was prompted by a desire for the public to have access to the paintings collected with such…
Read moreConcrete art
Concrete art was an art movement with a strong emphasis on geometrical abstraction. The term was first formulated by Theo van Doesburg and was then used by him in 1930 to define the difference between his vision of art and that of other abstract artists of the time. After his…
Read moreOpéra-National de Paris, France
The Opéra-National was a Parisian opera company that the French composer Adolphe Adam founded in 1847 to provide an alternative to the two primary French opera companies in Paris, the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique The goals of the new company were to “foster new compositional talent,” revive opéras comiques from…
Read moreXiangqi tourism guide
Xiangqi (Chinese: 象棋), or Chinese chess, is a traditional Chinese strategy board game that is related to chess. It has the largest number of players among chess variants, and is a very popular game in China, Vietnam, and overseas Chinese communities around the world. Understand History Traditional Chinese accounts date…
Read moreGuell park, Barcelona, Spain
The Park Güell is a large garden with elements architecture located in the upper part of Barcelona, on the slopes of the Carmel hill overlooking the sea, not far from Tibidabo. It was designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí, the greatest exponent of Catalan modernism, built between 1900 and 1914…
Read moreJózsef Borsos
Jozsef Borsos (December 21, 1821 – August 19, 1883) was a Hungarian portrait painter and photographer. He was also renowned for his numerous “genre” paintings and is most often recognized as an artist of the Biedermeier. He finished his studies in Vienna, where he garnered much attention. His portraits of…
Read moreFlower Tourism in Amsterdam, Guide Tour of Flower Market, Tulip Farm and Tulip Culture
As Netherlands enjoys the flower capital of the world, Amsterdam offers a variety of unforgettable flower tours throughout the year, whether it is flower exchanges, the world’s biggest flower markets above water, Keukenhof Gardens, flower greenhouses, and tulip museums. The city is visually, culturally, historically, economically, Of course, there is…
Read moreEye color
Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic character determined by two distinct factors: the pigmentation of the eye’s iris and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris. In humans, the pigmentation of the iris varies from light brown to black, depending…
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