-- Icon painting has reached its zenith in Ukraine between the 11th and 18th centuries. This art is appealing because of its great openness to other influences – the obedience to the rules of Orthodox Christianity in its early stages, the borro
-- The Bauhaus movement (meaning the “house of building”) developed in three German cities - it began in Weimar between 1919 and 1925, then continued in Dessau, from 1925 to 1932, and finally ended in 1932-1933 in Berlin. -- Three leaders pre
-- Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842) was not only the rare woman of her time who integrated herself into the French Royal Academy of Painting, but also beloved portraitist to the aristocracy.-- Self-taught, Vigée-Lebrun knew how to get the b
-- James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) debütierte in der Kunstszene in einem entscheidenden Moment der Kunstgeschichte und wurde zu einer Pionierfigur. Während die Impressionisten den Inbegriff der Avantgarde verkörpern, erreichen Whistle
-- Whistler suddenly shot to fame like a meteor at a crucial moment in the history of art, a field in which he was a pioneer. Like the impressionists, with whom he sided, he wanted to impose his own ideas. -- He never hesitated in crossing sw
-- Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the French created the term "Rococo".-- Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, it rapidly spread to the whole of Europ
-- Erotic photo art has lost much of its exquisite soul since Playboy and other girlie monthlies repackaged the human body for mass-market consumption. -- Like much painting, sculpture and engraving, since its beginning photography has also b
-- Since the foundation of the Au Lac kingdom three centuries ago – famous for their bronze drums and their magnificent artilleries – until the works of the painters from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Indochina, created in Hanoi in 1925, the arts
- Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) was one of Japan’s most internationally-renowned artists. He single-handedly transformed the art form from a simple style focused on courtesans and famous actors into a grander style depicting the beauty of natu
- The art world is filled with the presence of the Virgin Mary – a fundamental symbol of motherhood, who has been radiating youthfulness, tenderness, and compassion for two thousand years. - These works of art present a fascinating visual com
- Ilya Répine était le plus doué du groupe que l'on appelait en Russie «Les Ambulants ». Dès l'âge de douze ans, il entre à l'atelier d'Ivan Bounakov pour apprendre le métier de peintre d'icônes. La représentation religieuse restera très import
- Ilya Repin was the most gifted of the group known in Russia as “The Itinerants”. When only twelve years old, he joined Ivan Bounakov’s studio to learn the icon-painter’s craft. Religious representations always remained of great importance for
- Dracula in the Wallachian language means Devil. The Wallachians were, at that time, as they are at present, used to give this as a surname to any person who rendered himself conspicuous either by courage, cruel actions, or cunning.- It beca