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Competition vote for Milos Todorovic’s Art Shed

Hi everyone… If you like design which you can see here http://www.secrets-of-shed-building.com/shed-design-competition.html#INV   Thank you a lot!!! )

Visitor’s spot

Hi everyone… This is the place where you can share  your art…If you wish, you can send me on mail arthistoryspot@gmail.com your art and information that you would like to share such as name, year of birth, name of the painting, sculpture etc… and I will upload your art on this blog… Feel  free to [...]

Neoclassicism short examination

Neoclassicism short examination

Neoclassicism was a style with many contradictions. The word Neoclassicism was not mentioned in that time. Neoclassicism was official policy of an Academy in the middle of 19th century, but one segment of Neoclassicism enters in Romanticism while other became culminate phase in Enlightenment. It was the time when philosophers spoke about state, politics, moral.

Studenica Monastery

Studenica Monastery

Monastic settlement situated 30 km south-west of Kraljevo in Serbia. It was founded c. 1186 by the Grand Župan Stephen Nemanja (reg 1169–96). Within its walls are several conventual buildings and three churches: the main church (katholikon) dedicated to the Mother of God (Bogorodica; completed before 1196), the 13th-century chapel of St Nicholas and the [...]

Sofonisba Anguissola biography

Sofonisba Anguissola biography

Sofonisba Anguissola (also spelled Anguisciola; c. 1532 – November 16, 1625) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. Sofonisba Anguissola was born in Cremona, Lombardy around 1532, the oldest of seven children, six of whom were daughters. Her father, Amilcare Anguissola, was a member of the Genoese minor nobility. Sofonisba’s mother, Bianca Ponzone, was also [...]

Coppo di Marcovaldo’s The ‘Madonna del Bordone’

Coppo di Marcovaldo’s The ‘Madonna del Bordone’

Coppo di Marcovaldo (c. 1225 – c. 1276) was an Italian painter active n Tuscany. He is the best-known named Florentine artist of the generation preceding Cimabue. His one signed work, the Madonna del Bordone (1261), confirms, together with a few other paintings attributed to him, the growing importance of Florence as a centre for [...]

Bayeux Tapestry

Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry (French: Tapisserie de Bayeux) is embroidered strip of linen telling the story of the events starting in 1064 that led up to the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. In common with other embroidered hangings of the early medieval period, this piece is conventionally referred to as [...]