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Hace 4 días · The development of science necessarily plays a central role in any good narrative of the century. Again the 'literal' century justifies itself. If the nineteenth century was marked by a revolution in biology, then the years either side of 1900 saw the Curies, Rutherford, Einstein and Planck completely transform the understanding of physics.
Hace 2 días · Portrait of Paul Dirac by Clara Ewald (1939). Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac OM FRS (/ d ɪ ˈ r æ k /; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English mathematical and theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He is credited with laying the foundations of quantum field theory. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics ...
Hace 5 días · Women artists of the early part of the 19th century include Marie-Denise Villers, who specialized in portraiture; Constance Mayer, who painted portraits and allegories; Marie Ellenrieder, who was noted mainly for her religious paintings in the Nazarene style; Louise-Adéone Drölling, who followed in the footsteps of her father and her older brother as a painter and draughtswoman.
Hace 2 días · Paul Cézanne (/ s eɪ ˈ z æ n / say-ZAN, UK also / s ɪ ˈ z æ n / siz-AN, US also / s eɪ ˈ z ɑː n / say-ZAHN, French: [pɔl sezan]; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century. Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late ...
Hace 3 días · Art history invites you to uncover the tapestry of human creativity that spans thousands of years. This journey through the past brings us face-to-face with our ancestors’ first artistic endeavours and the sophisticated art forms developed by ancient civilisations.. The Dawn of Creative Expression. The journey into art’s past begins with the dawn of creative expression.
Hace 5 días · The portraits of John Kaye and Dorothy Kaye of Woodsome near Huddersfield, painted in 1567 by an unknown artist and now part of the Kirklees Museum and Galleries Collection, are described by the author as ‘intriguing and remarkably crude’ (p. 61), and reveal the typical hand of an individual trained or employed in the broader categories of craft production, which included decorative ...
Hace 3 días · By Bill Marx. A hundred years ago today one of the major writers of the 20th century, a giant of Japanese literature, died from stomach cancer at the age of 49. Natsume Sōseki didn’t live to complete his final (and longest) novel, Light and Dark, which he was publishing in daily installments for his employer (since 1907), the Asahi newspaper.
