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Tourism in Outer Space – History of Tourism

5 June, 2023 by Traveling Cook

History of Tourism – Outer Space Although all missions in outer space have not been touristic, Soviet astronaut Sergei Krikalev can be considered the first space tourist. Space tourist and last citizen of the Soviet Union. Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev was left in space during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Unable to return home, he ended up forced to stay in space until further notice, eventually returning to Earth on March 25, 1992. that was after 10 …

Venus Anadyomene

28 May, 202328 May, 2023 by Traveling Cook

Venus Anadyomene or “Venus rising from the sea” Venus Anadyomene Is an iconographic representation of the goddess Aphrodite coming out of the sea made famous by the painter Apelles. The original representation of Apelles disappeared, but it is described in Pliny’s Naturalis Historia, where it is mentioned as an anecdote that the painter used Campaspe, Alexander the Great’s concubine, as his model. According to Athenaeus, the idea of Venus rising from the sea was inspired by Phryne, who during the …

Leda and The Swan Painting History

27 May, 202327 May, 2023 by Traveling Cook

Leda and the Swan da Vinci – Michelangelo – Veronesse. – Rubens. – Boucher – Delacroix is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, or Jupiter, in the Roman version, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda, the daughter of the King of Aetolia, and married to the Spartan King Tyndareus. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and …

Erotic Pompeii, Vettii House – Italy

27 May, 202327 May, 2023 by Traveling Cook

Erotic Pompeii Vettii House The House of the Vettii in Pompeii, famous for its erotic paintings, can now be visited, although the most surprising environments still remain closed to tourists. God Priapus in House of Vetii Pompeii was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum are one of the main tourist attractions in Italy. Vettii house of Pompeii, may be visited by tourists. It had been closed for twelve years, …

History of Nude Painting in Art Renaissance Era

25 May, 202325 May, 2023 by Traveling Cook

ETSY Painting Prints Nude in 15th to 17th centuries The Quattrocento Nude in Baroque History of Nude Painting in Art Renaissance Era – 15th to 17th centuries Rubens + Da Vinci + Titian + Tintoretto + Giorgione + Botticelli + Van Loo + Correggio + Jacob Jordaens + Lemoyne. + Le Sueur What’s the renaissance? The Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages. Generally described as taking place from the …