The article takes as its point of departure the various meanings of the Spanish word "trama", observing and ordering these as they relate to different aspects of the art of printmaking. The phenomenon of trama […]
Between 1862 and 1889, the Empire of Brazil participated in the most important world’s fairs in Europe and North America. Representations of Brazil’s population and culture […]
Among the patrons of the young C. W. Eckersberg (1783-1853), the Jewish merchant M.L. Nathanson (1780-1868) was the most important. A key figure in the process eventually leading to […]
A Ilustração, directed by the Portuguese Mariano Pina (1860-1899) and published between May 1884 and January 1892, was a Luso-Brazilian illustrated magazine that for most of its existence was edited and printed in Paris before being sent to its […]
Monuments to kings or military heroes have always been positioned in main squares and avenues, whilst those erected to famous cultural figures were a novelty introduced […]
As a theorist and curator, the Swiss art historian Georg Schmidt (1896-1965), director of the Kunstmuseum Basel from 1939 to 1961, developed a decidedly normative approach to art history, based on a philosophy which […]
"The Russian Gérôme" – thus was Vereshchagin dubbed by English critics in 1872 and the comparison was repeatedly to be made by contemporaries. This article looks at where the two artists […]
In the Archeological Archives of the Hungarian National Museum you can find a series of photographs depicting fictile ivory. Made up of 265 items, the series were produced by John Brampton Philpot […]
William Morris’s carpet designs have been discussed in terms of design scheme, historical sources, naturalism and abstraction. This essay revisits some of these aspects in order to […]
The traveling exhibition "The Steins Collect" draws attention to the importance of the canon-shaping work that took place in two tiny Parisian ateliers at the beginning of the 20th century […]
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