Fall of the Roman Empire in painting: Ulpiano Checa y Sanz, Invasion of the Barbarians or the Huns Approaching Rome, 1887, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain (disappeared in 1939). Wikimedia Commons (public domain). The Spanish artist Ulpiano Checa, painted the invasion of Rome by th...
Art is about emotion. It’s the result of an artist unleashing their innermost thoughts and feelings onto canvas for all to witness, but which few understand. If you look at a painting and don’t feel anything, it’s because you’re lacking its backstory and historical context—the very r...
science and technology, and history museums. So whether you prefer to take in a painting at the Van Gogh Museum, check out an SR-71 Blackbird at the Museum of Flight, or gaze upon the Rosetta Stone, this list has it all!
Bruegel was born in a period of widespread change in Western europe. People oriented, artists and scholars from the ideal of the last century in europe. Italy is in the arts and culture, when artists, such as the end of their Renaissance Michelangelo and Da Vinci painting their masterpiece....
However, the most popular explanation by tour guides is that the painting was a gift for Pope Paul V. Caravaggio killed a man in a bar fight a few years early and fled Rome. He had been on the run for some time with a death sentence on his head. He may have painte...
title could make them money. From Rome, to Paris, to Rio, Lupin traveled far and wide in search of booty… both kinds. It was Lupin's love of women and his dirty mind that provided much of the comedy in the series, and it was the first time racy humor found itself in popular ...
Known to walk around Rome with a sword, he was supposedly part of a local gang and even killed a man in a duel. As a result, he was forced to flee Rome and made many travels south painting along the way from Naples to Sicily, to Malta, and back. As the legend goes, he wa...
DANIEL DE PAULA - veridical shadows, or the unfoldings of a deceptive physicality (个展)06.05 - 07.31Galeria Jaqueline Martins (巴西 S?o Paulo) (16) KICK ASS PAINTING - NEW YORK WOMEN (群展)06.05 - 07.17Anat Ebgi Gallery (美国 Los Angeles, CA) (3) Melora Kuhn - Tales from the Dark...
area under sovereignty. Pope Pius IX would not agree to the terms until 1929, when the Lateran Treaty was signed under Benito Mussolini, which granted the Vatican sovereignty. This sovereignty extends beyond the Vatican City to other churches, including the Basilica of St. John Lateran...
Markova would become the first Jewish – and first British –prima ballerina assolutain history, and a role model for young dancers all over the globe. “Necessity is the last and strongest weapon,” wrote Titus Levy in ancient Rome. For Markova, honoring her religion was that kind of necess...