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The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the 17th-century to the middle of the 18th-century. Baroque art was artists' response to the Catholic Church's demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence, it...
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Opium used to have the same importance in international economy and state-led strategies as petrol has today. It became the basis for trade with isolationist China as soon as theOpium Wars obtained trading rights for Western Companies. International strategies for...
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For more than a millennium, from its creation in 330 A.D. until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine Empire was a cradle of artistic effervescence that we are only beginning to rediscover. Endowed with the rich heritage of Roman, Eastern and Christian cultures, Byzantine...
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A escultura Mega Square estende-se ao longo de 23.000 anos e mais de 120 exemplos das melhores esculturas do mundo: da arte pré-histórica e estátuas Egípcias aos trabalhos de Miguel Ângelo, Henry Moore e Niki de Saint-Phalle. É uma amostra da grande variedade de...
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Art Nouveau designates a decorative and architectural style developed in the 1880s and 1890s in the West. Born in reaction to the Industrial Revolution and to the creative vacuum it left behind,Art Nouveau was at the heart of a "renaissance" in the decorative arts. The...
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I ritratti metallici, i nudi e le nature morte di Tamara de Lempicka racchiudono lo spirito dell’Art Deco e dell’età del jazz, e riflettono l’elegante ed edonistico stile di vita della ricca e privilegiata élite parigina nel periodo compreso tra le due guerre....
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India, with its extensive and colourful history, has produced an artistic tradition in many forms. Architecture, painting, sculpture, calligraphy, mosaics, and artisan products all display the country's cultural, religious, and philosophical richness. From Hinduism,...
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Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc as well as the Austrians Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were among the generation of highly individual artists who contributed to the vivid and often controversial new movement in...
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Housed in the Hermitage Museum along with other institutes, libraries, and museums in Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union are some of the most magnif icent treasures of Persian Art. For the most part, many of these works have been lost, but have been...
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Napoleon I. löste die alte Republik Venedig auf, weil sich die politische und militärische Macht der Stadt verflüchtigt hatte. Danach ruhte sich Venedig friedlich auf den Lorbeeren seiner glorreichen Vergangenheit aus. Heute, zu Beginn des neuen Jahrtausends, ist...
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Oscillating between the majesty of the Greco-Byzantine tradition and the modernity predicted by Giotto, Early Italian Painting addresses the first important aesthetic movement that would lead to the Renaissance, the Italian Primitives. Trying new mediums and techniques,...
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While Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and opened it to new, unknown horizons. Anchored in his...
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Sydney Bay was discovered by European explorers in 1770. Populated at first by colonial convicts and their guards, the city today accounts for one fifth of the entire population of Australia. Renowned for its Opera House, it presents an ultramodern vista to the...
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I paint whatI see and not what it pleases others to see. What other words than these of Édouard Manet, seemingly so different from the sentiments of Monet or Renoir, could best designate the movement of Impressionism? Without a doubt, this singularity was explained...
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From a historical perspective, Realism stands as a pivotal reaction against the extravagances of Romanticism, emerging in a time rife with social and political upheaval brought about by the Industrial Revolution. Artists like Gustave Courbet, the movement’s vanguard,...
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Naive art first became popular at the end of the 19th-century. Until that time this form of expression, created by untrained artists and characterised by spontaneity and simplicity, enjoyed little recognition from professional artists and art critics. Influenced by...
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Sydneys Küste wurde 1770 von den Europäern entdeckt. Zunächst nur bewohnt von Sträflingen aus den Kolonien und ihren Wächtern, macht allein die BevölkerungSydneys heute ein Fünftel der Gesamtbevölkerung Australiens aus. Berühmt für seine direkt am Wasser gelegene Oper,...
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In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelites, close to William Morris' Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing to revive the pure and noble forms of the Italian Renaissance, the major...
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Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that evolved throughout Europe for more than 200 years. Leaving curved Roman forms behind, the architects started using flying buttresses and...
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This collective interdisciplinary work on the landscape art from prehistory to the present day is made up of fourteen essays presented in three thematic sections (« The Human Being and his Environment », « The Experience of the Imaginary », « Spaces and Artistic...
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