Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he also became known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety […]
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Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits
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In Bordeaux, France, a submarine base has been turned into a museum. It will host one of the largest and most impressive digital art centres in the world. A new cultural space The brand new digital art centre is an enormous construction of 42,000 m² and almost 20 metres deep on the banks of the
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Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by frank eroticism. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. [Wikipedia] I first heard about him in 2006, when his portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer I registered the highest
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The Middle of the World City (Ciudad Mitad del Mundo in Spanish) is probably the most popular tourist attraction in Ecuador, right after or at the same level as Galapagos Island. This prefecture-owned land is located in the San Antonio parish of the canton of Quito, 26 km north of the centre of Quito. (Note:
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky is considered one of the greatest novelist in the World. His works “…explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes…” [Wikipedia.org]. He is part of the Russian culture and tradition, which is large and significant. So if you are travelling
Vienna is a very cultural city. It has plenty of museums and cultural options, and most of them close to each other. So you can feel surrounded by culture and historical buildings. It is also called the city of the music because of its musical legacy, which most the people (?) know. Must Do’s Because
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This is the simplest post about London, in the form of a summarised bullet point list. It is one of the greatest cities in the world and therefore deserves many posts, which I will add as soon as I can.If you are planning a Eurotrip or you are going to spend just a few days
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