- 19th Century Architecture by Anonymous
19th Century architecture is a wide subject only because there were so many beautiful and magnificent buildings built. The Houses of Parliament were built between 1840 to 1865. It was built by Sir Charles Barry in a Gothic Reviva...
- A Study of a Dionysiac Sarcophagus by Anonymous
In the Los Angeles County Art Museum
A man dies. He winds his way down into the underworld to reach the banks of the river Acheron where he meets the ferryman Charon. He takes a coin from his mouth to pay the tol...
- Arnolfini’s Marriage by Teresa Parker
Jan van Eyck was “one of the greatest and most influential Flemish painters of altarpieces and portraits of the 1400's” (Hayes). van Eyck's paintings often include objects with hidden symbolic meaning. There are several differen...
- Art and technology - Schwartz & Moffat by Chris FitzGerald
Many modern artists use high technology equipment in their works. Whereas traditionally artists used a pencil or brush to make beautiful works of art, artists in the early twenty-first century are now using sound, video or compute...
- Australian Art 1930-1960 by Joseph
The environment was major contributing factor to the evolution of Australian art in the 20th century. The elemental landscape; isolation and distance, the imposition of the mythical and the visionary on the landscape, national ide...
- Body-Life European Costume by Maria
Obviously, the form of costume is depending on the form of human body. This fact separates the art of costume from design and architecture.
Thus, fashion always has been longing for human body’s stylizing in costume. The ...
- Buddhist Art in Japan by Chris Fitzgerald
Buddhism had an important role in the development of Japanese art between the sixth and the sixteenth centuries. Buddhist art and religion came to Japan from China, with the arrival of a bronze Buddhist sculpture alongside the sut...
- Celebrity Infatuation by David Stern
“Brittney’s New Diet”, “Tom & Katie: All About The Baby” “Nick & Jessica: Now What?” These are just a few headlines of magazines I recently observed while standing in line at the grocery store. Six out of eight magazines that were...
- Ceramics by Anonymous
Introduction
First we will start with the definition of refractories and ceramics. Refractories and ceramics are non-metallic materials capable of maintaining physical and chemical stability at high temperatures. R...
- Chartres Cathedral by Chris FitzGerald
The medieval Gothic cathedral was in many ways a civic building as well as a religious one. This particularly was the case with the famous cathedral Notre-Dame de Chartres (Our Lady of Chartres) in the town of the same name, 80km ...