Articles, tagged with "mid 1800s", page 1

Valentine’s Day is an annual celebration that is held on February 14th. It honors the love and affection commonly displayed between intimate companions. It was officially named a holiday in 500 A.D. by Pope Gelasius I in honor of one or more Chris...

What is good painting? This may be quite debatable. Impressional paintings now are accepted by people and there are lots of good impressional paintings, but actually impressional paintings was not considered to be good painting in 19th century. Th...

The art world presents always had its own guidelines. Oil paintings loved by the aristocracy whom commissioned them or people that have been accepted for display by the snobby Paris Academy were the types considered good art all through a range of times. ...

The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (or as it is usually called, just the Orient Express) is something familiar to many of us through popular culture. We know this train from books, movies and other sources and we generally associate it with both luxury ...