Tag: history
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100,000 Digitized Art History Books Available To Download FOR FREE to Any Art Lover
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library," Jorge Luis Borges famously wrote. Were he alive today, he might well regard the internet as becoming more paradisiacal all the time, at least in the sense that it keeps not just generating new texts, but absorbing existing ones and making them available…
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Photo Series Documents Photographs That Look Ordinary Until You Know The Backstory
Photography is a form of art that can freeze the emotions of the moment in time. The development of the art has influenced the world in remarkable ways and it provided people with power to define the eras they live in. Here, we have compiled a list of thirty, seemingly mundane and not-that-spectacular-visually photographs with…
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Brazilian Artist Makes History Feel Like The Present With Stunning Colorized Photos
These days we are overwhelmed with options for adding color to black-and-white photos. Smartphone apps, artificial intelligence, and Photoshop knockoffs are accessible to amateurs and hobbyists, and YouTube is a constantly replenishing source of step-by-step tutorials. And yet, if you’ve tried colorization, you’ve likely discovered the finished result looks like highlighters scrubbed over an old…
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This Stylish 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Was Just Found in a Well
When the Romans pushed their way north into the German provinces, they built (circa 90 AD) The Saalburg, a fort that protected the boundary between the Roman Empire and the Germanic tribal territories. At its peak, 2,000 people lived in the fort and the attached village. It remained active until around 260 AD. Somewhere during the 19th century, The Saalburg was rediscovered and…
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Master Works of Art History Reimagined by Jeff Hamada
A little while ago, Booooooom (yes, that’s o times 7!), put a call out to the interwebs to recreate their favorite old master paintings with a modern spin. As the interwebs likes to do, all hell broke loose and professional and amateur artists alike started submitting their entries. It was so successful, in fact, that…
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The 14 Paintings That Revolutionized Art
From Gustav Klimt’s gilded aesthetic to Hieronymus Bosch’s devilish landscapes, the realm of art history has seen its fair share of radical painters. Today we accept the work of these artists as part of the canon, but at the time of their debut, masterpieces like “Adele Bloch-Bauer I” and “The Garden of Earthly Delights” were…
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40 Must See Photos From The Past. #5 Is Amazing!
We came across this selection of astonishing photos from the past, thanks to Reddit user epicnesshunter. Some of these are absolutely mind-boggling, but what makes most of them so powerful is that they were taken in the past century, just one or two generations away from us. Wow wow wow. #1. Woman With A Gas-Resistant Pram,…