The Course of Empire By Thomas Cole
Starting in 1833 Thomas Cole spent 3 years creating The Course of Empire, a series of five paintings describing the arc of human culture...
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Bass Drum Art From The 1920s And 1930s
The folks over at Polarity Records have put together a really in-depth and extensive article about the technicality of drum kits back in...
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Bilbo and Gollum behind the Iron Curtain
First published in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, has been translated into...
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Theo Van Gogh And The Film He Was Assassinated For Making
Yes, he was from 'that' Van Gogh family, Vincent was his great-granduncle and his great-grandad was Vincent's brother. On November 2,...
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A Supercut of Buster Keaton’s Less Benign Stunts
Joseph Frank Keaton was born into showbiz. His father was a comedian. His mother, a soubrette. He emerged into the world during a one...
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Charles M Schulz And Peanuts
The short video below melds the educational ease of a YouTube how-to with the self-directed, perhaps more artistically pure aspects of...
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The Gorgeous Letters Jim Henson Wrote to his Children and Friends Before he Died
Jim Henson was one of the world’s best-loved entertainers, and his sudden and untimely end at the age of just 53 sent a shock wave...
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Grace Kelly's Costumes In Rear Window
In the universe of Alfred Hitchcock heroines, it would be difficult to top Grace Kelly. In fact, the actress is literally ranked number...
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The Psychedelic Wonders Of Persian Architecture From 5 Cities In Iran
Medieval Iran has witnessed the emergence of some of the most beautiful wonders of Islamic art and architecture. These wonders mostly...
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Herb Ritts And The Star That Shone So Brightly
Herb Ritts (1952-2002) began his career in the late 1970s, when photographers helped ignite the modern celebrity cult. The stars shone so...
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Ormond Gigli And The 'Girls In The Windows'
There is a well-used adage that says there are reasons for everything. This is certainly true for why Ormond Gigli’s photograph, “The...
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Etiquette From The 1910s That Early Movie-Goers Had To Follow
During the silent film era, theatres imposed specific rules for movie watchers, displaying them on little cards. They gave several...
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Antonin Personnaz’s Autochrome Of 1907-1914 France
Art collector Antonin Personnaz took autochrome pictures of France’s Oise Valley between 1907 and 1914. He resembled the work of artists...
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19th Century Daguerreotype Portraits of The Blind
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” – Helen Keller...
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Illustrations From Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)
“The human race has been marching upward from the first ages of history. Under what law has that mighty procession of the ages taken...
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The Unmistakable Style of Inge Morath, One of Magnum’s First Female Photographers
The mannequins, following the show, Dior Show at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1954. Inge Morath may have frequently photographed...
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Leonardo Da Vinci's To-Do List Will Put You To Shame
Tucked away somewhere, maybe in a pocket notepad, scribbled on some paper in your wallet or buried in an obscure app you rarely use, is a...
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Hieronymus Bosch Figurines: Collect Surreal Characters from Bosch’s Paintings
Few painters have created as rich a world as Hieronymus Bosch did in The Garden of Earthly Delights. The late 15th- or early 16th-century...
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Meryl Streep Photoshopped Onto Food
Sometimes a gorgeous surreal idea is born, and this Instagram account is one of them.
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Classical Figures Photoshopped into Modern-Day Italy
Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov merges figures from classical oil paintings with photographic scenes of modern Naples.
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The Make Up Of Song Genres
Canadian illustrator John Atkinson reveals the anatomy of different styles of songs.
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Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna.
If you follow the ongoing beef many popular scientists have with philosophy, you’d be forgiven for thinking the two disciplines have...
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The 1920's Aerial Photographs Of Alfred Buckham
Alfred Buckham's first ambition was to be a painter, but after seeing Turner's pictures in the National Gallery, he returned home and...
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Surreal Animated Photos and Artworks by Nicolas Monterrat
Illustrator and animator Nicolas Monterrat has brought his wild imagination to historical photographs and artworks that he sets in motion...
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