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...
Chinatown in Milan is an ethnic enclave which welcomes the oldest and largest Chinese community in Italy. It reaches via Paolo Sarpi, via Bramante, via Aleardi and via Niccolini. History and character...
Time for a relaxing trip! Now that all the countries are easing travel restrictions, we all have found ourselves thinking of where to go for our first trip after the pandemic. Or at least, while it is...
Notre-Dame de la Garde is a Catholic basilica in Marseille, France. Its official name means “Our Lady of the Guard”, but locals know it as la Bonne Mère (“the Good Mother”) because they regard the bui...
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 – ...
As we walk by the busy streets, we are constantly being narrated stories from the past. Stories that we might not be able to understand. Even trees might be whispering tales from the past that they wi...
Famous Church Of Sicily? The Church of San Bartolomeo is located in Ragusa, Sicily. Between two hills, the Church and the natural environment surrounding it create an incredible landscape and unseen b...
Liko Noe: Zero Energy Building Zero Energy Building is a building that needs very low amount of energy for heating, cooling, lighting and other consumption and this need is completely supplied from re...
Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) is one of the great examples of innovative sustainable housing. It is located in the Sutton, London as the first...
The Colosseum, as one of the most magnificent structures from ancient history, was built between 70/72 CE under the heel of Vespasian and was finished under Titus, his son in 80/81 CE. The Colosseum i...
Catacombs of Paris Under the magnificent view of Paris, there is another world that is as dark as it’s glorious. The Catacombs of Paris, which contains bones of more than 6 million bodies, was u...
Legends have lengthy traced Nalanda’s origins to the Buddha himself. One that Xuanzang recorded withinside the 7th century CE speaks of a naga (serpent) named “Nalanda” who as soon as lived in a pond ...
King Ludwig II of Bayern and his enchanted castles King Ludwig II of Bayern is one of the most ingenious and controversial rulers of our time and has become historically famous for his architectural p...
Introduction Compared to the general Italian Renaissance, Venetian Renaissance has quite different features from other city-states in Italy. This is because of the topographic aspects that isolate the...
We all use emojis in daily life to express our feelings and emotions in text messages and they are really helping us with that. We just choose one that looks exactly how we feel, but are you sure abou...
Origin The first appearance of the term “rinascita”, which means rebirth, comes from the fundamental source of information on Italian art “Lives of the Artists”(c.1550) by Giorgio Vasari, ...
The beautiful city of Barcelona is known, among many other things, for its amazing modernist buildings. During the late XIX century and the begining of the XX, the Art Nouveau style spread through Eur...
Neoclassical Effect on Architecture Simple and symmetrical forms, geometrical pattern, the splendor of scale, minimum decoration… How did the elaborateness in ornaments, attentiveness to detail, and a...
Buenos Aires In the article ¨Buenos Aires. Part I¨ we were able to explore some of the most beautiful and iconic places in this amazing city in Latin America. In this article, we are going to know fi...
FROM THE ABSEBCE OF MATTER TO THE METAPHYSICAL RUIN Matter is essential to architecture, be it palpable or not. Our traditional understanding of what a building is, and its purposes, is ...
The Effects of High-Rise Buildings Towards the end of the 19th century, with the rapid population growth and urbanization, the density of high-rise buildings in cities increased significantly. Before ...
The intriguing nature of the ancient monuments and their history never cease to amaze us. It doesn’t matter in which part of the world we grew up, we all seem to be attracted by the mystery of o...