Art History
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Thread of Iberian Celtic pottery in the La Tène style and its significance. I've heard it said that early Greek pottery and art was "all horses and swastikas," reflecting their Ar...
the idea that the depiction of Moses with horns is somehow a misunderstanding due to a mistranslation in the vulgate is so mindnumbingly retarded as we have artistic depictions of...
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
Cycloramas were popular at the end of the 1800’s. But prior to that, created towards the end of the 1700’s, were moving panoramas. Enormous rolled paintings, in a theater setting...
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...
18th century photography of Julia Margaret Cameron(1815-1879). At age 48, she received the gift of a camera, and proceeded to accumulate over 1200 amazing photographs and portrai...
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
cant sleep and its 2am so heres an epic art history story (thus have i heard at one time) if you go to florence you will see this cathedral, called the duomo. everyone thinks its...
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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
Medieval Bestiaries The bestiary is a type of text known nowadays by its association with fantasy writing and art. But how many know about the origins of these illuminated manuscr...
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