Already one of Europe’s richest centers of cloth production and an important trade hub, the Netherlands under Burgundian rule attracted and inspired some of the most talented artists of the Renaissance period.
process of territorial expansion and political control—referred to as Burgundization—led
Monet found subjects in his immediate surroundings, as he painted the people and places he knew best.
He led the way to twentieth-century modernism by developing a unique style that strove
Scholars increasingly turned to the arts, the study of which was considered a path to the cultivation of the moral self.
The unique position occupied by the scholar elite in Chinese society has led historians
Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters advertising Parisian cabarets such as the Moulin Rouge led
conglomerate of left-leaning groups (Republicans) and the right-wing Nationalists led
With the conquest of the Mamluk empire in 1517, the Ottomans ruled over the most powerful state in the Islamic world.
(Mecca and Medina) to the Ottoman realm under Selim I (“the Grim,” r. 1512–20), led
Artists of the Neo-Impressionist circle renounced the random spontaneity of Impressionism in favor of a measured painting technique grounded in science and the study of optics.
Led by the example of Georges Seurat, artists of the Neo-Impressionist circle renounced
Active Istanbul, 1950–55
Adalet Cimcoz (1910–1970) led the gallery and its artistic program as founder together
Learn about the different sections of „Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs.“
, a ceramic fabric with a high quartz content, and the adoption of paper, which led
Doctrinal disputes led to his exile in Egypt and Armenia, where he died around 1352
