Portraits with overlays

Miniature Portraits with overlays of mica. Unusual portraits came into fashion after about 1650. However, all the portraits that were found on the Internet belong to the period from the 1640s to the 1660s.

Fauvism. 10 artists.

Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for “the wild beasts”), a group of early 20th-century artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.

Place in art. Zaandam

Place in art. Zaandam (Netherlands) by Claude Monet (1840 – 1926). In early June 1871, Monet left London for the Netherlands and traveled via Rotterdam to Zaandam.

What movies to see about

What movies to see, to immerse yourself in the era? Films for the atmosphere, inspiration. Films based on real events, film adaptations of books, legends and just a fantasy about the past.

Fayum portraits

Fayum mummy portraits is the modern term given to a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to Egyptian mummies from the Coptic period.

Zinaida Serebriakova

Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (née Lanceray) (1884 – 1967) was a Russian (later French) painter. Zinaida Serebriakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kursk into one of the most refined and artistic families in the Russian Empire.

The Language of Flowers

Floriography or the language of flowers is a means of cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers. Meaning has been attributed to flowers for thousands of years, and some form of floriography has been practiced in traditional cultures throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.