Introducing Florence Cradle of the Renaissance, birthplace of Gelato, home to the salty victory of unsalted bread, Florence is one of those cities synonymous with the very spirit of Italy…
We can praise the French for a variety of reasons, including their food, fashion, wine, art, artists, and a plethora of important art movements, but we must not overlook their…
The High Renaissance was a period during the Renaissance movement in Rome when some of the most exceptional artworks were produced. It is believed to have begun in 1490 with…
During 1510 and 1530, artists in Florence found a new source of inspiration from classical antiquity to add style to the changing world. This led to the emergence of the…
Public Building design has always been an integral and defining representation of any architectural era since time immemorial. Public Buildings are deemed to serve a plethora of myriad functions, whether…
Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) was regarded as something of a child prodigy, Veronese matured into one of the most famous masters of the late Italian Renaissance. The artist belongs to the…
Jülich was established in Roman times due to its strategic position for crossing the river Rur. The town played a pivotal role in history from the Middle Ages up to…
Salvador is the principal capital of Brazil established in 1549 on a little landmass that isolates Todos os Santos Bay from the Atlantic Ocean on the upper east shoreline of…
Often credited with being the ‘Father of Renaissance’, Giotto di Bondone, was the first-ever artist to break away from the monotonous byzantine style of paintings and move forward with naturalism.…
Vernacular architecture can be characterized as a kind of nearby or local development, utilizing customary materials and assets from the space where the structure is found. Thus, this architecture is…
What came along with the 600-year rule of the Ottoman empire is its architecture. Ottoman architecture has been heavily influenced by two major sources. The first is the Seljuk architecture…
Our collective memory of urban space is defined by a marriage of the physical and the emotional. The physical and the emotional go hand-in-hand. Anthropologists, sociologists study the emotional, cultural…