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"Separate & Together: Opposites in the Art and Life of Edward Hopper" by Dorothy Koppelman
Terrain Gallery | Aesthetic Realism Foundation
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April 18th marks the International Day of Monuments and Historic Sites.
Genocide Memorial Complex in Guba city
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The Anig Village Mosque. April 18 is the International Day of monuments and historical sites
Genocide Memorial Complex in Guba city
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Momina Khatun sepulcher. April 18th is the International Day of Monuments and Historic Sites.
Genocide Memorial Complex in Guba city
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BY EUROPEANA
01.08.2018
Dracula was from Yorkshire – and other facts for Yorkshire Day
1. Yorkshire is the biggest county in England An annotated version of Map of England & Wales showing population, 1700s. Wellcome Collection, CC BY Except that strictly speaking, Yorkshire...
BY EUROPEANA
26.07.2018
Text Announcement in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Books didn’t always have title pages! The title page only developed gradually over the 15 th and 16 th centuries. Before that time, different methods were used to announce the author(s), title,...
Terrain Gallery | Aesthetic Realism Foundation
03.05.2024
Berthe Morisot: The Technique of Art & the Questions of Life--What's the Relation?
By MARCIA RACKOW. As I studied the work of the renowned French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot, whom I care for, I was taken by the energy and motion in it, at one with its form and...
BY EUROPEANA
24.07.2018
Moving, breathing, transforming
Three Butterflies by Herman Henstenburgh, c.1683 – c.1726, Rijksmuseum, public domain ‘The universe is transformation, life is opinion.’ Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, Meditations, c. 121–180...
BY EUROPEANA
24.07.2018
Mixed-up mermaids
The Deutsches Historiches Museum #DHMMeer in Berlin is running a Europe and the sea blog parade from 20-25 July 2018, asking people to share posts on the theme ‘What does the sea mean to...
BY EUROPEANA
19.07.2018
Czechs and Slovaks fighting for independence during World War One
At the end of World War I, the geo-political landscape of Europe changed dramatically. Following the Treaty of Versailles several new nations emerged, among them Finland, Poland, Latvia and...
BY EUROPEANA
29.06.2018
World Cup of Art
Welcome to the World Cup of Art! The matches are between the artworks related to countries playing in the FIFA World Cup, available on Europeana. And you can influence the score by voting for the...
BY EUROPEANA
28.06.2018
Pride in Europeana: Victorian Dragqueens
On the Anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the highlight of LGBT+ pride month 2018, we dive into Wellcome Collection’s rich stores of queer heritage and take a look at an album of Victorian-era...
BY EUROPEANA
27.06.2018
A tale of Spanish migration and creating a home abroad
Spanish gastarbeiders De Egge te Brunssum, 1963, Historisch centrum Limburg, CC BY-SA. During the 1970s, Spanish gastarbeiders made up some 35,000 of the workforce in the Netherlands. We spoke to...
BY EUROPEANA
21.06.2018
Mementos of a lost homeland
When we asked people to share their stories and symbolic objects of migration, the responses submitted could be largely separated into two categories: those who emigrated by choice, and those who...
Maribor Museum of National Liberation
20.06.2018
Museum for Peace
V okviru Evropskega leta kulturne dediščine je Slovensko predstavništvo Evropske komisije pripravilo opise slovenskih projektov v angleščini za objavo na spletni strani in v mesečnih novicah – tako...
Maribor Museum of National Liberation
20.06.2018
60 let z vami - Muzej, to sem jaz
60 let delovanja muzeja je pomembne obletnica. Zaradi tega smo jo proslavili z lokalno skupnostjo ter podelili nagrade našim pomembnim sodelavcem. Ob tem smo odprli tudi razstavo, ki je pregled dela...
Terrain Gallery | Aesthetic Realism Foundation
03.05.2024
What Are You Looking for in Love? Robert Indiana’s LOVE
By KEN KIMMELMAN Reprinted from the Journal of the Print World When, in the 1960’s, I first saw Robert Indiana’s LOVE , it really took me, as it did people across America — it was the...
BY EUROPEANA
18.06.2018
Tamo daleko (There, far away)
Guest blog written by Fabian & Tatjana Vendrig ( Dutch and Serbian language versions below) “The bread you sent, every Serb took it, they crossed themselves and kissed it and then we all...
BY EUROPEANA
11.06.2018
Love across borders: the royal families
We have recently begun collecting personal stories from people all across Europe relating to migration. Our new short blog series, Love across borders , is inspired by collections discovered...
BY EUROPEANA
08.06.2018
Austrian Composers in Exile
View through barred windows of the internment building from Ellis Island to the skyscrapers of New York, ca. 1932 (CC0) In Austria, the year 2018 is an opportunity to re-examine the turning points...
BY EUROPEANA
06.06.2018
Reading habits in the past
The shape of the text has influenced how, what and why we read. This is the first blog of the Rise of Literacy project , where we take you from papyri to universities, exploring literacy in Europe...
Museo etnografico Nunzio Bruno
15.06.2018
Mani giovani per antichi mestieri
Patrocinato perchè giudicato meritevole di sostegno dalla Fondazione Terzo Pilastro - Italia e Mediterraneo di Roma, ideato e progettato dall’Ass. Museo civico TEMPO, gestito e promosso dal...
BY EUROPEANA
31.05.2018
Autographs, operas and tubas: Richard Wagner on Europeana
Detail of a caricature of Richard Wagner conducting, Miethke & Wawra, after Gust. Gaul (public domain, The Rijksmuseum) When it comes to the life and works of the influential composer Richard...
BY EUROPEANA
29.05.2018
