Interior design – Medieval, Gothic, Ecclesiastical
From the fall of Rome, when the city was finally sacked by Odoacer in 476, to the 15th century, when the Renaissance was already well advanced, information...
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Eva Zeisel | Hungarian-American Ceramicist & Designer
Eva Zeisel (born November 13, 1906, Budapest, Hungary—died December 30, 2011, New City, New York, U.S.) was a Hungarian-born American industrial designer and...
Christian Marclay | Biography, Art, The Clock, & Facts
Christian Marclay (born January 11, 1955, San Rafael, California, U.S.) is a Swiss American visual artist and composer whose multidisciplinary work encompasses...
Dame Lucie Rie | Modernist, Ceramics, Porcelain
Dame Lucie Rie (born March 16, 1902, Vienna, Austria—died April 1, 1995, London, England) was an Austrian-born British studio potter. Her unique and complex...
Corcoran Gallery of Art | American art, 19th-century art, Impressionism
Corcoran Gallery of Art, museum in Washington, D.C., chartered by Congress in 1870 and established through the provisions made by the banker William W....
Interior design – Space, Function, Aesthetics
ramp functioning as a focal elementA ramp functioning as the focal element of an interior: the former V.C. Morris Shop, San Francisco, designed by Frank Lloyd...
Graphic design – 20th Century, Typography, Visual Communication
Early developments In the first decade of the 20th century, the experiments with pure form begun in the 1890s continued and evolved. Although the Glasgow group...
Leo Castelli | Art Dealer & Patron of Pop Art
Leo Castelli (born 1907, Trieste, Austro-Hungarian Empire [now in Italy]—died August 21, 1999, New York, New York, U.S.) was an art dealer of Hungarian and...
The arts | Creative Expression, Visual Arts & Performing Arts
the arts, modes of expression that use skill or imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others....
Interior design – Space Planning, Functionality, Aesthetics
The scale and proportion of any interior must always relate to the architecture within which the interior exists, but the other important factor in considering...
