The portrait of Paquius Proculus is the name given to a fresco, dated between 20 and 30, found in the casa di Pansa during the archaeological excavations of Pompeii, detached from its support and preserved

History has preserved the memory of a prodigious prodigy which St. Anthony of Padua performed in Toulouse in the twelfth century, and which is commonly referred to as the miracle of the mule. A heretic,

The Girl with the Pearl is an oil painting on canvas made by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer around 1665. Artist: Johannes Vermeer Inventory number: 670 Owner: Netherlands Movement: Golden Age of Dutch

Dürer's rhinoceros is the name usually given to a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer dated 1515. Artist: Albrecht Dürer Inventory number: 1964.8.697 Subject: Rhinoceros Support: Xylography Creation: 1515 Periods:

Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is the informal title of a portrait made in 1884 by John Singer Sargent of a young and beautiful expatriate from Louisiana, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, a woman ...

Drawing is a technique of visually representing, in two dimensions, characters, landscapes or objects. The word was written indifferently design or drawing, involving the notion of intention, of project,

L'architecture est l'art majeur de concevoir des espaces et de bâtir des édifices, en respectant des règles de construction empiriques ou scientifiques, ainsi que des concepts esthétiques, classiques ou

Napoleon I on the imperial throne is a portrait of Napoleon I in costume of the coronation painted by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in 1806, and kept in the Museum of the Army of Paris. Artist:

The Venus de Milo is a famous Greek statue from the late Hellenistic period that depicts the goddess Aphrodite. Discovered in 1820 on the island of Milos, hence its name, it is currently preserved at the

The colossal Olmec heads are monolithic sculptures representing large-sized human heads in the round. Carved in basalt rocks, they date at least 900 BC. has a distinctive headdress. The rear of the monuments

Start of construction: 1897 Area: 77,000 m 2 </ sup> including 13,500 m 2 </ sup> for the nave Creation: 1900 Architectural Style: Fine Arts Style Architects: Charles Girault,

Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is the informal title of a portrait made in 1884 by John Singer Sargent of a young and beautiful expatriate from Louisiana, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, a woman ...

The term "Tanagra" was coined in the nineteenth century to designate the statuettes that had just been found in 1870, by the hundreds, in the Mycenaean necropolis of Tanagra, an ancient Greek

Auguste Rodin, who is seen as the progenitor of modern sculpture. While Rodin did not set out to rebel against the past, he created a new way of building his works. He "dissolves the hard outline

An illustration is a visual representation of a graphic or pictorial nature whose essential function serves to amplify, supplement, describe or extend a text . By extension, we speak of "sound

The monumental sculpture designates a sculpture which is characterized on the one hand by its large size and / or on the other hand by the fact that it is integrated into the architecture of a monument.

Francesco di Giorgio Martini's painting, Melozzo de Forlì and Piero della Francesca The Ideal City is a work preserved and exhibited at the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, located in the Ducal Palace

Artiste: Michel-Ange Hauteur: 434 cm Lieu d'exposition: Galleria dell'Accademia de Florence (depuis 1873) Mouvement: Haute Renaissance Support: Marbre de Carrare Date: 1501-1504 Le David est un chef-d'uvuvre

The statuette is in oolitic limestone and is 11 cm high. She represents a naked woman standing, presenting a strong obesity, the arms placed on her chest. The head, finely engraved, is bent forward and

The Venus of Urbino is a painting of the Renaissance made by Titian in 1538. The painter is then 50 years old and it is the first time that one orders to him of such a nude. Wikipedia Artist: Titian