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Ghent Altarpiece - Adoration of the Mystic Lamb

TheGhent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Dutch: De aanbidding van het Lam Gods),is a very large and complex 15th-century polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. It was begun around the mid-1420s and completed by 1432, and it is…
Ghent Altarpiece - Adoration of the Mystic Lamb

Musée Rodin

The Magnificent Hotel Biron, Home of the Rodin Museum in Paris since 1919 The 18th century palace required extensive updating and a redesign of its interior. It had not undergone full renovation since Auguste Rodin himself used it as his Paris studio until his death in 1917. The…

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Louvre September 2023
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Chartres Cathedral July 2023

Chartres Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres), is a Catholic church in Chartres, France, about 80 km southwest of Paris, and is the seat of the Bishop of Chartres. Mostly constructed between 1194 and 1220, it…
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Brú na Bóinne - New Grange and Knowth

The World Heritage Site of Brú na Bóinne is Ireland’s richest archaeological landscape and is situated within a bend in the River Boyne. Brú na Bóinne is famous for the spectacular prehistoric passage tombs of Knowth, Newgrange and Dowth which were built circa 3200BC. These…
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Museum of Fine Arts Budapest Hungary

The Museum of Fine Arts (Hungarian: Szépművészeti Múzeum [ˈseːpmyveːsɛti ˈmuːzɛum]) is a museum in Heroes' Square, Budapest, Hungary, facing the Palace of Art.It was built by the plans of Albert Schickedanz and Fülöp Herzog in an eclectic-neoclassical style, between 1900 and…
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Museo del Oro Bogota

Museo del Oro, in English Museum of Gold, Bogotá, Colombia. It is one of the most visited touristic highlights in the country.
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Hungarian National Gallery Budapest

The Hungarian National Gallery (also known as Magyar Nemzeti Galéria), was established in 1957 as the national art museum. It is located in Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary. Its collections cover Hungarian art in all genres, including the works of many nineteenth- and…

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is an international museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art and design. LOCATION - ADMISSION INFO The Collection The museum collection holds almost 90,000 objects, collected since 1874.[26] With important clusters and cores focusing on De…

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

The Rijksmuseumm Amsterdam was founded at The Hague in 1800 and moved to Amsterdam in 1808. The current main building was opened in 1885. After a ten year renovation, the main building was reopened in April 2013. Self Portrait as the Apostle Paul, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn,…
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Hungarian National Museum

Seuso Treasure 4th - beginning of the 5th century CEThe Seuso treasure is a treasure trove from the late period of the Roman Empire (4th – 5th centuries). It was named after its owner Seuso, who is identified on the inscription of the so-called hunting or Seuso platter. Its…
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Matthias Church Budapest

The Church of the Assumption of the Buda Castle (Hungarian: Nagyboldogasszony-templom), more commonly known as the Matthias Church (Hungarian: Mátyás-templom), more rarely the Coronation Church of Buda, is a Roman Catholic church located in the Holy Trinity Square, Budapest,…

Prado

The Museo del Prado is the largest and most famous art museum in Spain. Located in central Madrid, it holds one of the world's major collections of European art from the 12th to the 19th centuries. El Prado is also one of the most visited and greatest museums of art in the…

Barcelona Hermitage Museum

A private initiative has been given the go ahead to construct a Barcelona Hermitage museum. The plan is for it to be ready to open in 2019. The developers of the museum, designer Ujo Pallarés, from Cultural Development Barcelona, and his partner, the Russian entrepreneur Valery…

THE NEW TATE MODERN

The new Tate Modern will open to the public on Friday 17 June. The new Switch House building is designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron, who also designed the original conversion of the Bankside Power Station in 2000. It is the most important new cultural building to open in…

SFMoMA Opens Expansive New Building

The transformed and expanded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) opened to the public on Saturday, May 14, 2016. Purpose-built to showcase the museum’s celebrated collection, the new SFMOMA was designed by the architecture firm Snøhetta, and integrates a 10-story…

Lenbachhaus

Lenbachhaus Gallery (Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München) has the world's largest collection from the ‘Blaue Reiter’ (Blue Rider 1911-14) an important bridging movement of the artistic avant-garde at the beginning of the 20th century, founded in Munich in 1911…

DADA 100 YEARS - it's about the idea

Dada and the idea Dada was an artistic and literary movement, lasting from 1916 to 1922, that formed in Switzerland, in reaction to the horror of World War 1. The Dadaists believed that western cultural, artistic and political systems had inevitably culminated in the carnage of…

CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE: THE FLOATING PIERS

THE FLOATING PIERS, LAKE ISEO, ITALY For sixteen days – June 18 through July 3, 2016. Italy’s Lake Iseo is being reimagined. 100,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric, carried by a modular floating dock system of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes, undulate with the…
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Modigliani's Nu couché

The history of Venus and Amedeos Modigliani's Nu couché On 9 November 2015 Amedeos Modigliani's reclining nude, Nu couché, was sold for a record price for a Modigliani of $US170.4m in an auction at Christies New York. It is the second highest price ever achieved at auction for…