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The oldest surviving British art includes Stonehenge from around 2600 BC, and tin and gold works of art produced by the Beaker people from around 2150 BC. The La Tène style of Celtic art reached the British Isles rather late, no earlier than about 400 BC, and developed a particular "Insular Celtic" style seen in objects such as the Battersea Shield, and a number of bronze mirror-backs ...
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543) – German artist and printmaker who became court painter in England; Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c.1520–c.1590) – Flemish printmaker and painter for the English court of the mid-16th century; George Gower (1540–1596) – English portrait painter
Benedict of York (died 1189), money lender; Jon Champion (born 1965), broadcaster; Captain Christopher Levett (1586–1630), explorer of New England, first settler of York (present-day Portland), Maine; Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800) social reformer and patron of the arts. [28] Guy Mowbray (born 1972), football commentator
Lexicon Technicum: or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves was in many respects the first alphabetical encyclopedia written in English, compiled by John Harris, with the first volume published in 1704 and the second in 1710. [1]
The following is a partial list of adjectival forms of place names in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these places. Note: Demonyms are given in plural forms.
The Creation of Adam, from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling – an example of high culture. In a society, high culture encompasses cultural objects of aesthetic value which a society collectively esteems as being exemplary works of art, [1] as well as the intellectual works of literature and music, history and philosophy which a society considers representative of their culture.
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Region Country Type 24:7 Theatre Festival: 2004: Manchester: England United Kingdom: Annual (Around 24 July) Adelaide Festival of Arts: 1960 [1] Adelaide: South Australia Australia: Aabaha Art and Theater Festival: 2023: Greater Atlanta: Georgia United States: Annual Avignon Festival: 1947: Avignon France: Annual (July) Athens Festival: 1955 ...