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Polish Proverbs, Quotes and Sayings

Polish Proverbs, Quotes and Sayings ~~~ What one thinks when sober, one says when drunk Polish Proverb ~~~ You become whom you befriend. Polish Prov...
10:10 1 March 2020

Wilton Diptych

Wilton Diptych The Wilton Diptych is a small portable diptych of two hinged panels, painted on both sides. It is a rare religious panel painting from&...
1:20 1 March 2020

“Samson and Delilah” by Peter Paul Rubens

Samson and Delilah by Peter Paul Rubens Samson and Delilah by Peter Paul Rubens depicts an episode from the Old Testament story of Sams...
12:57 29 February 2020

The Phillips Collection

The Phillips Collection  Virtual Tour The Phillips Collection is an art museum with a collection that includes paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir...
11:55 29 February 2020

Silk Bodice from the 1770s

Silk Bodice from the 1770s This silk bodice from the 1770s is from France and reflects the fashion of the period and the French style. A bodice covere...
11:45 29 February 2020

Phrasikleia Kore

Phrasikleia Kore The Phrasikleia Kore is a funerary statue created about 550 BC. The inscription suggests, it depicts a young woman who died unmarried...
9:08 29 February 2020

Hoa Hakananai’a, a Moai from Easter Island

Hoa Hakananaia although relatively small, is typical of the famous Easter Island sculptures. Easter Island statues are called by the Rapa Nui people, ...
21:47 28 February 2020

“Capriccio: Ruins and Classic Buildings” by Canaletto

Capriccio: Ruins and Classic Buildings by Canaletto Capriccio: Ruins and Classic Buildings by Canaletto depicts an architectural fantasy, placing toge...
11:11 28 February 2020

“New York” by George Bellows

New York by George Bellows New York by George Bellows is a large painting that captures the essence of modern life in New York City in 1911. The view ...
11:08 28 February 2020

David by Bernini

David by Bernini David by Bernini is a life-size marble sculpture depicting the biblical David, about to throw the stone that will bring down Goliath,...
10:49 28 February 2020

“Treaty of Paris” by Benjamin West

American Commissioners of the Peace Agreement with Great Britain American Commissioners of the Preliminary Peace Agreement with Great Britain, also kn...
9:51 28 February 2020

“The Church at Auvers” by Vincent van Gogh

The Church at Auvers by Vincent van Gogh The Church at Auvers by Vincent van Gogh depicts the church in Auvers-Sur-Oise, a village in the outskirts of...
8:44 28 February 2020

National Museum in Prague

National Museum in Prague Virtual Tour The National Museum is a Czech museum exhibiting natural scientific and historical collections. The museum was...
4:26 28 February 2020

Jane Austen Manuscript of “The History of England”

The History of England by Jane Austen Handwritten Manuscript The History of England by Jane Austen was written when the author was fifteen years old ...
3:25 28 February 2020

Wedding Suit of James II

Wedding Suit of James II The wedding suit of James II includes two items of an ensemble that James, the then Duke of York, wore to his wedding in 1673...
23:17 27 February 2020

Bishop Museum

Bishop Museum Virtual Tour The Bishop Museum is a museum of history and science founded in 1889. It is the largest museum in Hawaii and has the most ...
11:55 27 February 2020

The Cyclops Polyphemus

The Cyclops by Odilon Redon The Cyclops Polyphemus in Art Polyphemus is the one-eyed giant from Greek mythology. He is one of the Cyclopes described i...
10:12 27 February 2020

Scottish National Gallery

Scottish National Gallery Virtual Tour The Scottish National Gallery is the national art gallery of Scotland and first opened to the public in 1859. ...
0:38 27 February 2020

Frankfurt Museums

Museums in Frankfurt Virtual Tour Frankfurt is the fifth-largest city of Germany after Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, and Cologne. Situated on the River Ma...
12:00 26 February 2020

Archaeological Museums

Archaeological Museums An Archaeological Museum is an institution with collections that include artifacts shaped by humans that are of historical or c...
11:59 26 February 2020

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton A Virtual Tour Sir Frederic Leighton (1830 – 1896) was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, an...
11:28 26 February 2020

“The Judgment of Paris” by Peter Paul Rubens

The Judgment of Paris by Peter Paul Rubens The Judgment of Paris by Peter Paul Rubens shows Rubens version of idealized feminine beauty, with the godd...
11:06 26 February 2020

Vienna Dioscurides

Vienna Dioscurides Juliana Anicia Codex The Vienna Dioscurides is a Byzantine Greek illuminated manuscript copy of Medical Material by Dioscorides, w...
9:02 26 February 2020

Historic Yates Mill County Park, Raleigh, NC- Virtual Tour

Yates Mill 1756 Gristmill Virtual Tour The Yates Mill is a fully restored, 1756 gristmill, which is the centerpiece of Historic Yates Mill County Pa...
3:36 26 February 2020

Salt Lake City Museums

Museums in Salt Lake City Virtual Tour Salt Lake City is the capital of Utah and the seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in Utah. Salt...
3:32 26 February 2020

The Funeral of a Viking

The Funeral of a Viking by Frank Dicksee The Funeral of a Viking by Frank Dicksee depicts the funeral of a Viking leader laid out in a boat that has b...
0:21 26 February 2020

Hanover Museums

 Museums in Hannover Virtual Tour  Hanover or in German, Hannover is the capital of Lower Saxony and lies at the confluence of the River Le...
0:00 26 February 2020

Edward Hopper’s American Realist Paintings

New York Interior by Edward Hopper New York Interior by Edward Hopper depicts a girl framed in an apartment window or door sitting on her bed wit...
8:55 25 February 2020

“The Icebergs” by Frederic Edwin Church

The Icebergs by Frederic Edwin Church The Icebergs by Frederic Edwin Church is an imaginative depiction of composite views and many sketches to convey...
8:21 25 February 2020

“The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama” by Édouard Manet

The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama by Édouard Manet The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama by Édouard Manet commemorates the Battle of C...
4:25 25 February 2020