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Society at large experienced a lot of tremendous changes between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the people that lived through the turn of the century were often trying to reconcile one set of values with another. These values can certainly include aesthetic values, as was the case with artist Arthur B. Davies. Arthur B. Davies was born in 1862 in Utica, New York, and died in 1928. He is...

While the name 'Arcimboldo Giuseppe' may not roll off the tongues of many modern people, many of these very same people are familiar with his very distinctive work. Many people in museums are drawn to his truly unforgettable portraits. Arcimboldo Giuseppe is famous for portraits in which the subjects appear to be fashioned out of otherwise very lifelike fruits and vegetables, as if someone sculpted a face out of fruits...

It is not often an artist has a mountain named after him but that is exactly what has happened to the late American artist Thomas Cole. He ended his days living at a farm called Cedar Grove in the Catskills, New York where he established his studio and the fourth highest mountain in the Catskills is called Thomas Cole Mountain in his honour. It was the beauty of the Catskill...

“I will do things no one in the past has dared to do, I will think new thoughts, bring new things into being.” Such were the words of Leonardo da Vinci to his regular comrades whom he loved, cherished and lived his entire life with. He created works of astonishing beauty including the world-famed Mona Lisa. He was not only a world renowned painter but also a musician, architect, sculptor,...