Art History
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500 years ago there was a painter called Pieter Bruegel who changed the course of art history. And his paintings are unlike anything you've seen before... https://t.co/VuiSKPjkSA
Stained glass has been used by artisans across the globe for thousands of years. Since the 8th century, the Muslim world played a major role in the growth of the glass industry. Mo...
one of the most famous horoscopes from the Islamic world, a stunning 15th C Timurid piece combines artistry, astrology, and geometry The astrologer assigns one complete sign to ea...
What are the most beautiful artistic patterns? From ancient China to Ottoman Turkey to classical Rome, we illustrate the designs of a number of civilisations throughout history be...
Why did artists stop making art? https://t.co/x2Rpcp2FFC
One day in the year 1892, when Edvard Munch was going for a walk near Oslo, the sky turned blood red. He went home and created one of the most famous works of art in history. But...
Danish artists in 19th century Rome wore fez and smoked hookahs: (a short thread on global art and culture) https://t.co/DK1F1R8b9E
On the left: Venus of Willendorf (25k years old) On the right: Nefertiti (4k years old) In the CONTRAST of these two images you can see the story of human civilization What does...
I've found my passion. there is a geo guesser which just does churches of Europe. its so much fun. ive found so many cool new churches around Europe and also im tested my geographi...
Why did artists in the past paint the same thing over and over again? https://t.co/zrJ6zIMpKj
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Girl with a Pearl Earring, painted by Vermeer in 1665, might just be the most famous and beloved portrait in the world. But who is the girl? Well, that's the thing. There was no...
Why does Art Nouveau design look like that? (Wisteria Lamp by Clara Driscoll for Tiffany's, 1902) https://t.co/HdZ08HdRPv
This 1928 self-portrait is probably the ultimate Art Deco painting. And it's by Tamara de Lempicka, the ultimate Art Deco artist. She was a unique, futuristic painter with a wild...
An absolutely spectacular illuminated page from a 1562 (modified and expanded in 1583) Safavid (and later Ottoman, it would appear) copy of the Shāhnāmah, truly one of the grandest...
Why did Claude Monet love the colour blue so much? Well, it all began with four friends and a mistake... https://t.co/bANYyeyiVT
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818) is one of the world's most famous paintings. You've seen it before & you love it. But it was totally forgotten for over one hundred years, alo...
Everybody knows that Vincent van Gogh loved the colour yellow. But why? Well, the story begins 19,000 years ago... https://t.co/QRZ2Gb2zke
One piece of art from every decade since the year 1300, in chronological order. 1300-1310: The Bronze Head of Ife, Nigeria 1/83 https://t.co/18TQwQow8N
If you were a tourist in Venice in the 1700s and you wanted a picture of the city, what would you do? Before photography came the "veduta", a genre of highly-detailed landscape pa...
This painting is 600 years old. And that mirror in the background is barely ten centimetres across, yet it contains a reflection of the entire room. Including the artist at work,...
An introduction to Impressionism: https://t.co/Z4h3SlZPjl
Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were originally painted in vibrant colours. To them, a plain marble statue would look unfinished... https://t.co/Am2OpwMvaX
Devlopment of Qutub minar -Earlier Qutub Minar looked very different from what it looks like today. according to Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan Sahab instead of stone railings, there were b...
