The affinity diagram is a business tool used to organize ideas and data. It is one of the Seven Management and Planning Tools. People have been grouping data into groups based on natural relationships for thousands of years; however, the term affinity diagram was devised by Jiro Kawakita in the…
Read moreA wide and rich panel of national art from the 20th century and today, awaits the visitor to the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Art . With more than 1,800 m² of area and filled with around 170 works from the Museum’s collection on a permanent basis, the Gallery…
Read moreRomantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Enlightenment ideas of the 18th century, and lasted from 1800 to 1850, approximately. Some have attributed the…
Read moreThe Museum of Applied Arts’s collection of lace, and its holdings of glassware—especially Venetian glass—are considered among the finest and most varied in the world. Even in the Baroque period, Venetian glasswork was particularly treasured, and both men and women spent vast sums on the sumptuous lace decoration that fashion…
Read moreMikayil Huseyn oglu Abdullayev (Dec 19, 1921 – Aug 22, 2002) was an Azerbaijani painter, a People’s Painter of the former USSR since 1963, and creator of a series of paintings entitled Through India. Mikail Abdullayev was born in Baku on 19 December 1921. Azimzade in 1939, the Art School…
Read moreThe Museum of Old Mexico Toy is hosting an exhibition in summer 2015, dedicated to toys originating in Bavaria, Germany, Playmobil. The German brand of plastic toys with an eternal smile and hands capable of holding tools, created by Hans Beck, emerged in 1974. In Mexico they began to be…
Read morePalafrugell is a town and municipality in the region of Lower Emporda. The area’s summer climate and beaches have been exploited for tourism. In additional to international tourism, Palafrugell serves as a summer holiday town for residents of cities such as Barcelona and Girona. This medieval town was once fortified…
Read moreThe Matterhorn is a mountain of the Alps, straddling the main watershed and border between Switzerland and Italy. Due to its unique pyramid appearance and difficult to climb structure, the Matterhorn has become an iconic emblem of the Alps in general. Since the end of the 19th century, when railways…
Read moreA superb collection of 16th – 19th century Germanic glass drinking vessels in the collection of Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass. The Mahler Collection of Germanic Glass Drinking Vessels Ernst Mahler was an Austrian chemist hired in 1914 by Kimberly-Clark Corporation in Neenah, Wisconsin. In 1931 he purchased a collection of…
Read moreThe Gran Teatre del Liceu, popularly known simply as the Liceu, is a theater of opera situated in the Ramblas of Barcelona, at no. 51-59. It opened on April 4, 1847, though its history begins in 1837. It was, by capacity, the largest opera house in Europe for its first…
Read moreFor a long time, Venice has been threatened and destroyed by sea tides and floods. Water has always been a concern by the Venetian. It requires care, substantial investments to avoid swamping as much as flooding. At the same time, however, water attracts and fascinates and, without it, Venice would…
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