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 …
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 …
Piece of Eight – The First Global Currency – Real de a Ocho It was the first global currency that preceded the British gold pound sterling and also the United States dollar. It was widely used and its hegemony in world trade extended for more than 300 years. Americans relied on his model to develop their own dollar, called the Spanish dollar or Spanish pillar dollar. The political protagonism, the historical projection and the prestige of Spain as a great …
How many People Travel the World?: 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 Travel the World 2022 WTTC expects world tourism to recover to 85% in 2022 with an 18% recovery in tourism employment and international travel doubling. Travel with Insulin & Diabetes The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) forecasts that the sector will recover 85% of the pre-pandemic level by the end of 2022, as long as no more mobility restrictions are …
Picasso Nude Artworks Exhibition on line Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 School of Paris painter, sculptor, etcher, lithographer, ceramist and designer, who has had enormous influence on 20th century art and worked in an unprecedented variety of styles. Born at Malaga, Spain, son of an art teacher. His family moved to Barcelona, where he entered the School of Fine Arts 1895; then entered Madrid Academy 1897. Early showed great precocity. First visited Paris in autumn 1900, returned in 1901 when he had his first Paris one-man exhibition at the …