Art History
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There's more to the Renaissance than Michelangelo. So here's an introduction to the delightful worlds of Sandro Botticelli... https://t.co/VeI5vCY6sF
We love it when filmmakers take direct inspiration from great artists and classic paintings. Here are some of our favouritesโฆ First up, The Truman Show (1998) and Au Clair de Lune...
Why does our world look the way it does? Because of the most influential design school in history: the Bauhaus. From fonts to furniture, this is how Bauhaus created the aesthetic...
200 years ago Francisco Goya painted "The Dog" on the walls of his own home. And here's why he did it... https://t.co/hTM3cYsf7w
Art has lots of "isms". Here's what they mean: https://t.co/DX7lyvGlBl
How did they tell apart the thousands of different saints in Medieval and Renaissance art? Each saint had their own stories and symbols. Like St Ulrich, who's always holding a fis...
My favourite paintings from each major movement of art - a thread ๐งต 1. Northern Renaissance: "The Garden of Earthly Delights", Hieronymus Bosch (c.1490-1510) https://t.co/lQmoNquB...
511 years ago today the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was shown to the public for the first time. Is it the greatest achievement in the history of art, or is it overrated? To hel...
Pablo Picasso's art changed a lot. Here's why: https://t.co/tfwBHyHtHL
On the left is the oldest statue ever discovered. Found in Germany and known as the Lion Man, it is more than 40,000 years old. On the right are two major films released in 2023....
๐ The Glorious Gupta Dynasty: A Flourishing Epoch of Indian History ๐๏ธ๐ Day 12 : โAncient Historyโ Today, letโs step into the enchanting world of the Gupta Period, an era known f...
Baroque was a movement that sought above all else to inspire awe. Its goal was maximum drama and grandeur by emphasizing motion, contrast and extravagant detail. A thread of Baro...
โOur anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.โ โ Kahlil Gibran https://t.co/IT3yLkFKOL
Following on from yesterday's post, a ๐งต of the 5 known female artists @ the #Mughal court @ the end 16th/beg. 17th C. All 5 paintings have inscriptions on them identifying the arti...
Ancient sculptures were painted with bright colours. To Greeks or Romans a plain marble statue would have looked unfinished... https://t.co/JlIt4yYQHX
You've probably seen this painting before โ it's Ophelia by John Everett Millais, from 1852. But what you probably don't know is that people once thought this kind of art was dang...
Want to know the difference between the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Romans? Just look at their statues. Art always tells you what a society wants to believe about itself. So,...
A brief introduction to Impressionism: https://t.co/QrTOnHFpd9
Why is Michelangelo's statue of David so famous? Well, he was only 26 when he carved it. And it's much bigger than you realise... https://t.co/ey5kyGvVER
This is the most stolen painting in history. Considered the first major oil painting, it has been burned, looted, damaged, and obsessively desired in its 600-year history. Below...
Unpacking the Mona Lisa after World War II and the intricate plan to keep it safe from theft during the war. https://t.co/zYI7peeHDw
In the Indian subcontinent, there has been a long tradition of sending cards to family and friends in celebration of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. Below are some hi...
Sometimes oldIE mythemes explicitly mentioned in a H text will appear clearly in yavana iconography, even if contextually shifted. Here is a sealing depicting the nursing of the i...
โFifty on the chain, Twenty for the piece / a grand for this, the whip is not a lease.โ โ Rick Ross https://t.co/weaIwTyjIr
