The 19th century in the West marked the ... last flowering of the traditional ethos that art’s purpose is to bring beauty into the world, yet it pointed to the Modernist rupture with the past in the ...

His exposure to the world of fashion began during his early years ... historical insights that can be gleaned from his art.

The gestures adopted by many of these figures belong to a common visual culture in the art and drama of the medieval church. The iconography, which reflects a Gothic Mannerist style of the early ...

Europeans did not set eyes upon it's rose-colored walls for centuries, until the early 19th century when a traveler ... Photograph by Art Archive Much later, a new wave of settlers arrived ...

1827 fusion of art and cartography ... Waters were the interstate highways of the early 19th-century United States. Many Americans earned their living as farmers, and waterways provided an ...

A signature style of the early 20th century “Ask three historians to define the term Art Deco, and you’ll likely get three varying answers,” design writer Arricca Elin Sansone said last year ...

She began her collection of 19th century photographs in ... the medium as a “legitimate art form”. As advances in photographic technology allowed early adopters to capture landscapes with ...

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...

from the 17th Century to the end of the 19th Century. These clips are taken from the BBC series The Britain that Women Made. Suitable for: Art and Design and History at KS3 in England, Wales and ...