Macabre Mania From Charles Allan Gilbert to Andy Warhol
Source: New Your Almanack
March 8, 2022 by Jaap Harskamp 2 Comments
The ossuary under the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini at Via Veneto in Rome houses the skulls and bones...
How Gothic Art Captivates Us
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Transi
Fontes: Curso História Online, Wikipedia
Um transi, também dito tumba memento mori e, popularmente, tumba de cadáver, é um tipo de efígie na forma de um cadáver em decomposição, particularmente característica da arte tumular da Idade Média posterior.
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Uma representação pintada de um transi, na...
Cologne Cathredal
"In 1857, a famous poet-Düsseldorfer, Heinrich Heine, was once asked why gothic cathedrals don’t get built anymore. His answer was: 'In those days men had convictions, whereas we moderns...
A Handsome Gothic Structure
Source: The Irish Aesthete
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‘Callan; a market town of mean appearance in the barony of Kells, and a corporation, sending two representatives to parliament; it is situated on the King’s...
How Dürer shaped the modern world
Source: New Statement
Philip Hoare explores how the artist’s obsession with science, magic and self-promotion paved the way for our existential age.
BY SUE PRIDEAUX
In 1520 Albrecht Dürer travelled to Zeeland to...
Contest of The Cathedrals – the Gothic Pperiod | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eGWHxbTSO8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_UvBLmdBMU
The Romanesque Period
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Another Grey World: Brutalism in Berlin
Source: Slow Travel Berlin
Jesse Simon visits some of Berlin’s notable Brutalist–and Brutal-ish–buildings…
In the eighties and nineties, few things were more reviled than raw, unfinished concrete. Architects who had no...
Au temps des cathédrales : l’époque gothique | ARTE
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