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History of art
- OrientalismThe word orient entered the English language as the Middle French orient in the late medieval period. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote about conquering many great…
- Italian RenaissanceNorthern and Central Italy in the Late Middle Ages became far more prosperous than their southern counterparts. The region was among the richest in Europe by…
- History of artIn the Swabian Jura region of Germany, a cave called Hohle Fels yielded carved animal and humanoid figurines dating between 43,000 and 35,000 BC.
- Italian Renaissance paintingIn the year 1305, a painter named Giotto stood before the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua and began to paint figures that breathed.
- Royal entryOn the 5th of April 1127, at twilight, the king and newly elected Count William of Flanders entered Bruges. The canons of Saint Donatian met them with relics…
- Buddhist artIn the 2nd century BCE, a sculptor in Gandhara carved a footprint into stone. This mark replaced any human image of Siddhartha Gautama for centuries.