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My favourite is definitely the British Romanticism of the XIXth century. Turner and the Preraphaelites. However, as a History of Art student I need to have a broader knowledge of the most important moveme...

First I would look at the general function of portraiture in the 15th century which was primarily to memorialize the features of the patron for posterity and to ensure rememberance, as well as to celeb...

Will look to Aivazovsky & Turner as a point of basis.

In 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted a urinal to an open exhibiton for the Society of Independent Artists. He presented it on its back, signed and dated “R.Mutt 1917”. The piece was never accepted into th...

The term ‘Renaissance’ comes from the French meaning ‘re-birth’, and refers to a renewed interest in classical antiquity in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (sometimes referred to as the quattrocento...