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).

The children, featured in this fountain, are dancing the Khorovod. The Khorovod is a type of common circle dance which Russian children loved to do b...

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old grump of a man when he is visited by three ghosts (also called spirits). The Spirit of Christmas Present shows him ...

Prince Albert, who was born in Germany, brought his childhood love of Christmas traditions to his growing family.

This image depicts how a ceremonial shield, made of gold and ivory, appeared when it was first discovered at the Tomb of Philip at Vergina.Believed to...

On the 14th of October, 1947, Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager flew an airplane at speeds which reached Mach 1.

The town of Tyrenear today's town of Sor (in Lebanon)was part of the Roman world.

The town known today as Cividale, in northeastern Italy, had already been settled by Celts and Veneti when Julius Caesar established a municipium (tow...

Although the Supreme Court was very busy, during the last part of the 19th century, the Justices overturned a key law providing civil-rights protectio...

America's Civil War significantly impacted Missouri, then a ''Slave State'' (but one that remained in the Union). Refugees, from Missouri's northern-b...

FromThe Chronicles of Froissart, this image depicts a masked ball attended by nobility (including King Charles VI). Based on an actual event - called...

This image depicts a facsimile page from the Codex Vaticanus (the original of which dates to the mid-4th Century, A.D.). The specific page, which we s...

There was a time when religion and science were linked. During those medieval days, moralisées - such as Codex Vindobonensis 2554 - illustrated how r...

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