The Lithuanian Art Museum (Lithuanian: Lietuvos dailės muziejus) was initially established in Vilnius in 1933 as the Vilnius City Museum. It houses Lithuania’s largest art collection. Lithuanian Art Museum – Lithuanian National Museum of Fine Arts in Vilnius. Since 1941 Vilnius State Art Museum, since 1966 – LSSR State Museum…
The Holocaust Memorial Center (Holokauszt Emlékközpont) is a renovated synagogue that dates back to the 1920s and serves as a memorial and museum for and about Hungarian Jews that were killed in The Holocaust. While largely focused on Jews, the museum also mentions the discrimination and killings of Gypsies, Homosexuals,…
Lights, colour, excitement, horse shows and flamenco, the Feria de Sevilla, the most elaborate and most colourful event in the calendar in Andalucia. The Feria of Seville 2023, the most important celebration and the highlight of the year in Seville, took place from 23 to 29 April. During the celebrations,…
The Mikhail Bulgakov Museum is a state museum in Moscow dedicated to the life and work of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov The first in Russia Mikhail Bulgakov State Museum was founded on the 26th of March, 2007, by the Government of Moscow in apartment number 50 in house number 10…
Polish folk costumes from the collection of The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw. National costumes of Poland (Polish: stroje ludowe) vary by region. They are not worn in daily life but at folk festivals, folk weddings, religious holidays, harvest festivals and other special occasions. The costumes may reflect region and…
Adel Abdessemed (1971) is a French-Algerian conceptual artist. He works and lives in Paris and London. He is represented by Dvir Gallery. He has worked in a variety of media, including animation, installation,performance, sculpture and video. Some of his work relates to the topic of violence in the world. Abdessemed…
Printemps Haussmann is a department store owned by the Printemps Group located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and where the main fashion, beauty and home decoration brands are distributed. They are distributed by theme in the store’s three buildings (27 levels and 45,500 m² in total). The facades and…
Egyptian revival decorative arts is a style in Western art, mainly of the early nineteenth century, in which Egyptian motifs were applied to a wide variety of decorative arts objects. Enthusiasm for the artistic style of Ancient Egypt is generally attributed to the excitement over Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt and,…
The Route des Grandes Alpes is a 720-kilometer tourist route that crosses the French Alps from north to south, passing through 17 mountain passes, 6 of which are over 2,000 meters above sea level. It starts from Thonon-les-Bains (on Lake Geneva) to join – since 2012 – Nice (on the…
The Natural Science Museum of Barcelona is a natural history museum located in the city of Barcelona. It is made up of five sites located in different parts of the city: the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona, located in the Forum Building in the Parc del Fòrum, the Botanical Garden…
The Regional Natural Park of the Bauges is located in the French region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes and extending into the departments of Haute-Savoie and Savoie. It brings together 67 municipalities, including 46 in Savoie and 21 in Haute-Savoie, plus six gateways. In total, the park has 67,000 inhabitants for an…
Be Free from All Those Shapes, Melbourne, Australia All ThoseShapes is all about street art, graffiti, urban art and music. The music side has been a little slack for a while but the photography of street art is constant. every day there’s something new. How far are you going to…
Perception (from the Latin perceptio) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information, or the environment. All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sensory system. For…
Evolutionary aesthetics refers to evolutionary psychology theories in which the basic aesthetic preferences of Homo sapiens are argued to have evolved in order to enhance survival and reproductive success. Based on this theory, things like color preference, preferred mate body ratios, shapes, emotional ties with objects, and many other aspects…
The fifth-largest Roman Amphitheatre is found in the province of Sevilla, Spain. Its building dimensions are 156.5 × 134 meters and its arena dimensions are 71. 2 × 46.2 meters. Built in the reign of Adrian’s Empire, 117-138 AD, the Italica amphitheatre could hold up to 25,000 people and still…
Utility box art is a form of street art whereby utility boxes on city streets are painted or otherwise covered in artwork. Utility box or electrical enclosure is a cabinet for electrical or electronic equipment to mount switches, knobs and displays and to prevent electrical shock to equipment users and…
The Neapolitan Renaissance indicates the declination of Renaissance art developed in Naples between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In architecture it was characterized by exuberant and solemn ways, with a wide appeal to the decorations in piperno and white marble for the facades of the sacred buildings and the palaces.…
Animal style art is an approach to decoration found from China to Northern Europe in the early Iron Age, and the barbarian art of the Migration Period, characterized by its emphasis on animal motifs. The zoomorphic style of decoration was used to decorate small objects by warrior-herdsmen, whose economy was…
A binary image is a digital image that has only two possible values for each pixel. Typically, the two colors used for a binary image are black and white. The color used for the object(s) in the image is the foreground color while the rest of the image is the…
The Palace of the Parliament of Catalonia is a building located in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona, the seat of the Parliament of Catalonia since 1932. Work by Joris Prosper Van Verboom, it was built in the 18th century as an arsenal for the military citadel of Barcelona.…
Villeurbanne is a municipality bordering Lyon, located in the metropolis of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Villeurbanne is the second-largest city in the metropolitan area of Lyon and the 20th most populated in France. In 2013, Villeurbanne was elected the city with the best administration of France, which attracts more…
Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, is the largest public platform for innovative contemporary performance and visual arts. With 312,000 daily visitors to New York City’s Times Square, it is one of the highest profile public arts programs and since its inception, Times Square…
The adoption in northern Europe, mainly Germany and the Netherlands, of the artistic ideals of the Italian Renaissance The prime mover was the German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) who travelled twice to Italy to discover the ‘secrets’ of the Italian masters, especially the mathematical principles of perspecitve and proportion Dürer’s…
The interiors of the castle not only served as the residence of the imperial family, but were also built for representation purposes and were the scene of countless celebrations and ceremonies that symbolized and strengthened the prestige of the monarchy. For this purpose, many well-known artists and renowned craftsmen were…
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Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Lithuanian Art Museum (Lithuanian: Lietuvos dailės muziejus) was initially established in Vilnius in 1933 as the Vilnius City Museum. It houses Lithuania’s largest art collection. Lithuanian Art Museum – Lithuanian National Museum of Fine Arts in Vilnius. Since 1941 Vilnius State Art Museum, since 1966 – LSSR State Museum…
Read moreHolocaust Memorial Center, Budapest, Hungary
The Holocaust Memorial Center (Holokauszt Emlékközpont) is a renovated synagogue that dates back to the 1920s and serves as a memorial and museum for and about Hungarian Jews that were killed in The Holocaust. While largely focused on Jews, the museum also mentions the discrimination and killings of Gypsies, Homosexuals,…
Read moreReview of the Seville April Fair 2023, Andalusia, Spain
Lights, colour, excitement, horse shows and flamenco, the Feria de Sevilla, the most elaborate and most colourful event in the calendar in Andalucia. The Feria of Seville 2023, the most important celebration and the highlight of the year in Seville, took place from 23 to 29 April. During the celebrations,…
Read moreMikhail Bulgakov Museum, Moscow, Russia
The Mikhail Bulgakov Museum is a state museum in Moscow dedicated to the life and work of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov The first in Russia Mikhail Bulgakov State Museum was founded on the 26th of March, 2007, by the Government of Moscow in apartment number 50 in house number 10…
Read moreRegional Types – Traditional Polish Folk Costumes, Warsaw National Ethnographic Museum
Polish folk costumes from the collection of The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw. National costumes of Poland (Polish: stroje ludowe) vary by region. They are not worn in daily life but at folk festivals, folk weddings, religious holidays, harvest festivals and other special occasions. The costumes may reflect region and…
Read moreAdel Abdessemed
Adel Abdessemed (1971) is a French-Algerian conceptual artist. He works and lives in Paris and London. He is represented by Dvir Gallery. He has worked in a variety of media, including animation, installation,performance, sculpture and video. Some of his work relates to the topic of violence in the world. Abdessemed…
Read moreGuide Tour of Printemps Haussmann, Paris, France
Printemps Haussmann is a department store owned by the Printemps Group located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and where the main fashion, beauty and home decoration brands are distributed. They are distributed by theme in the store’s three buildings (27 levels and 45,500 m² in total). The facades and…
Read moreEgyptian revival decorative arts
Egyptian revival decorative arts is a style in Western art, mainly of the early nineteenth century, in which Egyptian motifs were applied to a wide variety of decorative arts objects. Enthusiasm for the artistic style of Ancient Egypt is generally attributed to the excitement over Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt and,…
Read moreThe Route of Grandes Alpes, French-Italian Border
The Route des Grandes Alpes is a 720-kilometer tourist route that crosses the French Alps from north to south, passing through 17 mountain passes, 6 of which are over 2,000 meters above sea level. It starts from Thonon-les-Bains (on Lake Geneva) to join – since 2012 – Nice (on the…
Read moreNatural Science Museum of Barcelona, Spain
The Natural Science Museum of Barcelona is a natural history museum located in the city of Barcelona. It is made up of five sites located in different parts of the city: the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona, located in the Forum Building in the Parc del Fòrum, the Botanical Garden…
Read moreRegional natural park of the Bauges massif, France
The Regional Natural Park of the Bauges is located in the French region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes and extending into the departments of Haute-Savoie and Savoie. It brings together 67 municipalities, including 46 in Savoie and 21 in Haute-Savoie, plus six gateways. In total, the park has 67,000 inhabitants for an…
Read moreBe Free
Be Free from All Those Shapes, Melbourne, Australia All ThoseShapes is all about street art, graffiti, urban art and music. The music side has been a little slack for a while but the photography of street art is constant. every day there’s something new. How far are you going to…
Read morePerception
Perception (from the Latin perceptio) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information, or the environment. All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sensory system. For…
Read moreEvolutionary aesthetics
Evolutionary aesthetics refers to evolutionary psychology theories in which the basic aesthetic preferences of Homo sapiens are argued to have evolved in order to enhance survival and reproductive success. Based on this theory, things like color preference, preferred mate body ratios, shapes, emotional ties with objects, and many other aspects…
Read moreRoman amphitheater of Italica, Spain
The fifth-largest Roman Amphitheatre is found in the province of Sevilla, Spain. Its building dimensions are 156.5 × 134 meters and its arena dimensions are 71. 2 × 46.2 meters. Built in the reign of Adrian’s Empire, 117-138 AD, the Italica amphitheatre could hold up to 25,000 people and still…
Read moreUtility box art
Utility box art is a form of street art whereby utility boxes on city streets are painted or otherwise covered in artwork. Utility box or electrical enclosure is a cabinet for electrical or electronic equipment to mount switches, knobs and displays and to prevent electrical shock to equipment users and…
Read moreNeapolitan Renaissance
The Neapolitan Renaissance indicates the declination of Renaissance art developed in Naples between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In architecture it was characterized by exuberant and solemn ways, with a wide appeal to the decorations in piperno and white marble for the facades of the sacred buildings and the palaces.…
Read moreAnimal style art
Animal style art is an approach to decoration found from China to Northern Europe in the early Iron Age, and the barbarian art of the Migration Period, characterized by its emphasis on animal motifs. The zoomorphic style of decoration was used to decorate small objects by warrior-herdsmen, whose economy was…
Read moreBinary image
A binary image is a digital image that has only two possible values for each pixel. Typically, the two colors used for a binary image are black and white. The color used for the object(s) in the image is the foreground color while the rest of the image is the…
Read morePalace of the Parliament of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
The Palace of the Parliament of Catalonia is a building located in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona, the seat of the Parliament of Catalonia since 1932. Work by Joris Prosper Van Verboom, it was built in the 18th century as an arsenal for the military citadel of Barcelona.…
Read moreVilleurbanne, Lyon metropolis, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Villeurbanne is a municipality bordering Lyon, located in the metropolis of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Villeurbanne is the second-largest city in the metropolitan area of Lyon and the 20th most populated in France. In 2013, Villeurbanne was elected the city with the best administration of France, which attracts more…
Read moreTimes Square Arts, New York City, United States
Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, is the largest public platform for innovative contemporary performance and visual arts. With 312,000 daily visitors to New York City’s Times Square, it is one of the highest profile public arts programs and since its inception, Times Square…
Read moreNorthern Renaissance 1430 – 1580
The adoption in northern Europe, mainly Germany and the Netherlands, of the artistic ideals of the Italian Renaissance The prime mover was the German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) who travelled twice to Italy to discover the ‘secrets’ of the Italian masters, especially the mathematical principles of perspecitve and proportion Dürer’s…
Read moreSoutheastern rooms, Schönbrunn Palace
The interiors of the castle not only served as the residence of the imperial family, but were also built for representation purposes and were the scene of countless celebrations and ceremonies that symbolized and strengthened the prestige of the monarchy. For this purpose, many well-known artists and renowned craftsmen were…
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