Visual Arts Story Briefs

What does it mean when we say "art is in the eye of the beholder?" How have artists' subjects changed over the centuries? This collection features diverse art forms (from ancient mosaics to modern cubism).

Mikael Blomkvist, one of Stieg Larsson's main characters in the Millenium Trilogy, was a rifleman in Kiruna during his time of national service.

This image depicts a page from the Illuminated Chronicle, also known as Manuscript (Cod. Lat. 404).  A national treasure for the country of Hunga...

Making their point with EXTREMELY graphic depictions of slaves at work (and being punished for daring to rebel or escape), anti-slavery societies did ...

Sunsets seem more beautiful in the presence of certain types of clouds. Why is that?

When people could not afford to buy gas or cars, during the Great Depression, they returned to the use of horse-drawn wagons.

After his city of Warsaw had been bombed into ruin, a 9-year old boy becomes the breadwinner of his family.

During the 1930s, Dorothea Lange photographed ditch-bank housing - homes in which migrant farm workers lived in California’s Imperial Valley.

During the 1930s, Dorothea Lange photographed the types of homes in which migrant farm workers lived in California’s Imperial Valley.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Britain had a shortage of sailors. To fix this problem, "press gangs" roamed the country's seaports where they kidnapped m...

Image of a lithograph called "Louis XVI and his Family in the Chateau du Temple," by Edgar Melville Ward.

In 1954, a group of climbers on Chile's El Plomo Mountain found the mummy of a young Inca boy.

Dr. Johan Reinhard and his team found two mummies near the summit of Ampato (at an elevation of 19,200 feet).

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