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Charles Allan Gilbert. Charles Allan Gilbert (September 3, 1873 – April 20, 1929), better known as C. Allan Gilbert, was an American illustrator. He is especially remembered for a widely published drawing (a memento mori or vanitas) titled All Is Vanity. The drawing employs a double image (or visual pun) in which the scene of a woman admiring ...
Neuschwanstein Castle (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [ˈʃlɔs nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn]; Southern Bavarian: Schloss Neischwanstoa) is a 19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps in the very south of Germany, near the border with Austria. It is located in the Swabia region of Bavaria, in the ...
Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called public art, land art or art intervention; however, the boundaries between these terms overlap.
The Sistine Chapel (/ ˈsɪstiːn / SIST-een; Latin: Sacellum Sixtinum; Italian: Cappella Sistina [kapˈpɛlla siˈstiːna]) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna ('Great Chapel'), it takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built between 1473 and 1481.
Christie Brinkley and Chevy Chase are back on the road again!. On Monday, Aug. 26, the pair — who tempted fate during a road trip in National Lampoon's Vacation — reunited more than 40 years ...
Swanston Street is a major thoroughfare in the Melbourne central business district, Victoria, Australia.It was laid out in 1837 as part of the original Hoddle Grid.The street vertically bisects Melbourne's city centre and is famous as the world's busiest tram corridor, for its heritage buildings and as a shopping strip.
And ever since here in 2011, the 35-year-old Ozanich has lobbied for his French relatives to come to a game. He’s mired in an 0-for-13-year slump. “They have never been to a baseball game ...
2013. Nationality. Iranian. Education. Llotja School, Barcelona. Known for. Photography, film, video installation, and collage. Sadegh Tirafkan (July 3, 1965 in Karbala, Iraq to Iranian parents – May 9, 2013 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Persian: صادق تیرافکن) [ 1] was an Iranian contemporary artist who lived mainly in Tehran, Iran ...