Louvre
The building of the Louvre in its present form was begun in 1546 by François I , who also founded the royal collections, acquiring works by Leonardo , Raphael , and Titian . Louis XIV was both the most enthusiastic developer of the site and the most heroic art collector (buying in 1661 much of [...]
Conceptual art
Here you can find some basics for understanding conceptual art. Well, about book about conceptual my recommendations are: Conceptual Art A&I (Art and Ideas) Conceptual Art (Themes and Movements) Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology A 1960s innovation prioritizing idea over execution. At its extreme, a conceptual art work may consist only of a brief written [...]
Video art
Term referring to art employing videotape as its medium. As a flexible technique, it encompasses a considerable range of styles, approaches, and intentions, as well as varied presentation formats. Like performance art, video art gives its practitioners the opportunity to exploit duration in combination with the spatial concerns that have always been at the heart [...]
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock Painter, printmaker, and occasional sculptor. The iconic abstract expressionist, he forged a singular style of great expressive power. Skeins of dripped, poured, and flung paint dominate his key all-over paintings of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Hans Holbein
Painter, draughtsman and designer, active in Switzerland and England, son of (1) Hans Holbein (i). He is best known as the most important portrait painter in England during the Reformation, although he began his career in Basle, where he worked mainly as a painter of altarpieces and designer of woodcuts. Dissatisfaction with patronage in Switzerland [...]
Jan van Eyck
1. Life and work. (i) Training and early works in The Hague, to 1425. According to a 16th-century Ghent tradition, represented by van Vaernewijck and Lucas d’Heere, Jan trained with his brother Hubert. Pietro Summonte’s assertion (1524) that he began work as an illuminator is supported by the fine technique and small scale of most [...]
THE DYNAMICS OF BEAUTY IN CLASSICAL GREECE
How beauty worked within the general context of classical Greek life. Then beauty was deemed a gift of the gods and was often prized accordingly in religious ritual. Perhaps the most striking example of this is the phenomenon of the beauty competition (kallisteion), which figures in many myths and is often adopted and adapted in [...]
Egyptian Furniture
By the New Kingdom, the quality of Egyptian “furniture” (ḫtwt) was renowned throughout the ancient world. It was often sent as tribute to the rulers of neighboring countries. Its origins can be found in the early Predynastic period. Then, poorly constructed furniture was made from roughly cut branches that were simply lashed together with rope; [...]
Egyptian jewelry
Items of personal adornment from the Nile Valley are an important part of the history of jewelry. More than mere body ornament, jewelry in ancient Egypt was used to display rank, proclaim wealth, and designate social status. It was also fashioned into powerful amulets, objects of barter and trade, accouterments of daily attire, diplomatic gifts, [...]
Byzantine Jewelry
Jewelry (κόσμος, lit. “ornament”). Byzantine jewelry continued Greco-Roman traditions but was also influenced by Eastern decorative and nonfigural types, with an admixture of local elements wherever in the empire it was produced. The forms of objects made by jewelers in Rome, Constantinople, Athens, Antioch, or Alexandria thus varied considerably. Byz. jewelry may generally be distinguished [...]
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