Welcome back to yet another instalment of Art 101 – this time focusing on Romanesque Art! Background to the Romanesque period The Romanesque era covers the period from around 1000 AD to t...
The Medieval Period – Carolingian Art Welcome back to the Art 101 series, where we will be talking about Carolingian Art.. This week we will talk about the first of our three topics for the Medi...
Welcome to the second topic in our Art 101 series – Illuminated manuscripts. Today we will be taking a whistle-stop tour through the history of illuminated manuscripts across Europe from...
Part 2 of the first instalment in the Art 101 series In this post we will look at the ancient art from three of the most advanced and celebrated ancient civilisations in Western Art history, sp...
The first instalment of the Art 101 series The first post of this week will look at Ancient Art – focusing briefly on each of the following: Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age art.  ...
Spirit Photography and Spiritualism in the 1800s. We take horror movies and media meant to scare us for granted these days. We go to the cinema, wanting to be spooked, but never really believing in th...
Bernini and the “Bel Composto” How Gian Lorenzo Bernini created a marriage of art, light and architecture in his works Bernini and his background Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 – ...