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Sumerian artifact made out of mosaic that shows the role of society in the ancient city of Ur. -
This amazing sculpture is located in San Lorenzo, Veracruz, Mexico. The Colossal Olmec heads are stone representations of human heads from the Olmec civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. -
The Aphrodite of Knidos is a sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite made by Praxiteles. -
Sculpture made out of marble that was found in 1863. This sculpture lacks the head and arms but shows a great feeling of triumph that is associated with the Hellenistic era, which includes the three centuries of Greek history between the death of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E. and the rise of Augustus in Rome in 31 B.C.E. -
Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, inventor, composer, among many other things. He was the creator of amazing paintings like the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, however his talent was beyond art as well. He studied plants, animals, and human beings. He also studied the wind and water creating amazing inventions that he left written.
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Painting made in tempera on canvas that serves as a tribute to spiritual and physical beauty. -
Martin Luther was an Augustinian monk and doctor of theology who spoke out against the excesses of the Church. Luther had no intention of destroying Catholicism, he wanted to reform it.
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Salon de la Princesse is a splendid room found in the Hotel de Soubise. -
Mozart was a prodigy who as a kid started his first compositions. He was able to improvise and also transcribe whole compositions that he had only heard once. He produced a total of some 650 works throughout his life.
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This is a piece that was drawn by Louis Carmontelle of the Mozart’s family that was made in Paris shortly before the Mozart family arrived in London in April 1764. -
Wordsworth claimed that nature could restore to human beings their untainted, childhood sense of wonder.
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“Liberty is the mother of virtue, and if women be, by their very constitution, slaves, and not allowed to breathe the sharp invigorating air of freedom, they must ever languish like exotics, and be reckoned beautiful flaws in nature…” -
The Impression, Sunrise is a painting made in oil on canvas by Claude Monet. In this painting, Monet used a different method to create shadows by not using black and brown, but the complementary colors to the hue of the object casting the shadow. -
This painting was made in oil on canvas. It was painted by Degas as if it was being seen from below -
Le Moulin de la Galette is a painting made in oil by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In this painting, Renoir shows an outdoor cafe and dance hall in Montmartre where you can observe all kinds of members of the Parisian society dancing and having fun. -
Beautiful painting made in oil on canvas of the small French town of Saint-Rémy painted with thick strokes of white, yellow, orange, and blue. -
This photograph was taken by Lewis Hine in order to show child labor and how this practice was affecting many children throughout the United States. The main focus of this photograph is the girl so that we are able to observe the enormity of the machines compared to her. -
This is a painting of oil on canvas made by Magritte that shows the realistic image of a pipe with the legend “This is not a pipe”. This image is juxtaposed making it seem irrational since it makes you think more deeply, because it is not a pipe, it is just a drawing of a pipe. Therefore, Magritte developed a form of Surrealism known as “Magic Realism”. -
This is a photograph of a late afternoon in black and white of the town of Hernandez. -
The Louvre is a beautiful glass and metal pyramid that consists of another two little pyramids. The main pyramid serves as an entrance to the Louvre museum.