The Beautiful Era (French: Belle Époque) was a period of Western history. It is conventionally dated from the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Occurring during the era of the French Third Republic (beginning 1870), it was a period characterized…
Read moreProtest art is a broad term that refers to creative works that concern or are produced by activists and social movements. There are also contemporary and historical works and currents of thought that can be characterized in this way. Social movements produce such works as the signs, banners, posters, and…
Read moreA medical illustration is a form of biological illustration that helps to record and disseminate medical, anatomical, and related knowledge. Medical illustration is an applied artistic discipline developed by professional medical illustrators. A medical illustrator interprets and creates images to help explain and disseminate aspects of medical and biological knowledge.…
Read moreBaptist Franco, known as Samolei (Venice, 1510 – 1561), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker in etching, He is exponent of Roman mannerism. He is active in Rome Urbino, and Venice in the mid 16th century. He is also known as il Semolei or just Battista Franco. His painting,…
Read moreRomanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, however, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to feature more simplified arches and windows than their historic counterparts. An early variety of Romanesque Revival…
Read moreThe history of aviation extends for more than two thousand years, from the earliest forms of aviation such as kites and attempts at tower jumping to supersonic and hypersonic flight by powered, heavier-than-air jets. Kite flying in China dates back to several hundred years BC and slowly spread around the…
Read moreThe Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site consists of several buildings including Martin Luther King Jr.’s boyhood home and the original Ebenezer Baptist Church, the church where King was baptized and both his father Martin Luther King Sr., and he were pastors. These places, critical to the interpretation of…
Read moreIn naming his fictional island ‘Utopia’, writer Thomas More conjoined the Greek words for ‘good place’ and ‘no place’ – a reminder that the idealised society he conjured was fundamentally phantasmal. And yet, the search and yearning for Utopia is a ceaseless humanist endeavor. Predicated on possibility and hope, utopian…
Read moreThe Mission of the Clyfford Still Museum is to advance the understanding and appreciation of Clyfford Still’s art and legacy through the presentation, research, interpretation, preservation, and stewardship of its unique collections. Considered one of the most important painters of the 20th century, Clyfford Still (1904-1980) was among the first…
Read moreTwo installations that form Simon Denny’s Secret Power exhibition are in the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. Simon Denny’s project for the New Zealand pavilion is split across two spaces—the arrivals areas of the Marco Polo Airport and the Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana…
Read moreEn plein air (literally in the open air) is a phrase in French that indicates a pictorial method consisting of painting outdoors to capture the subtle nuances that light generates on every detail. Another objective of this technique is to grasp the true essence of things, since it is an…
Read moreThe “Camera di vetro”, the new room for the decorative arts on the second floor of the Toriense museum in Palazzo Madama, entirely designed and built with the contribution of Rotary Club Torino. The room is the result of a careful study of the design and rearrangement of the “Glass…
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