plucking his lute, or the gallant tossing a kiss to his lady, though less dramatic and more tranquil, seem also to have been transfixed in the midst of activity. We are today so familiar with porcelain, particularly in its utilitarian forms, that we can hardly conceive the thrill with which it was regarded when it was first produced in Europe. For a long time oriental porcelain had been enormou...

From the moment the Olavide Museum opened its doors in 1882 until its content was packed up around 1965 and lost sight of for a time, it underwent a succession of changes. Some of those changes cannot be fully documented now because the archives of the Provincial Council (Diputación) of Madrid were lost during the Spanish Civil War. The museum was initially housed in Hospital de San Juan de Dio...

The purpose of the article is to discover and reveal symbolism artefacts by painters, sculptors, carvers, other artists Galicia, dedicated Mykola Lysenko’s personality achievements. research methodology. historical-retrospective method has been applied find materials documents about existence artefacts, determine chronology motivation for their appearance. system-analytic enabled systematisatio...

The people who undertook the implementation of architectural projects Sargon dynasty kings and we mean by this craftsmen professions were assigned for tasks work building these projects. These mentioned in many administrative letters which exchanged between officials Assyrian kingdom. Among functions that those texts: provincial governors, priests, architects, builders, sculptors carpenters who...