Speakers playing classical music in selected parts of an Australian tourist city have proven to be an overnight success in driving out anti-social elements.
In mid-November 6 years ago, classical music has played in targeted areas of the Gold Coast and has successfully safeguarded the area from hoodlums and vagrants, according to the Courier Mail. Local…
Arts & Culture
New York City life bustles outside — car horns, an occasional shout, the general urban hum. But inside the apartment, a soothing opposite — gentle Chinese music plays as painter Xiaoping Chen sits with legs folded on top of each other in effortless full lotus, emanating tranquility like a still pond.
“Being artists, we can only…
First, East met West and chinoiserie was born. Then, a certain cabinet found its way to the philanthropist and designer, Ann Getty. The rest is history.
What does one gift a woman who has everything? Over 30 years ago, John Paul Getty, the American petroleum magnate, gave Ann Getty, his daughter-in-law, an exquisite cabinet in the…
The story of Filippo Brunelleschi, who reimagined architecture, designing the magnificent dome for the Florence Cathedral, a symbol of the Renaissance spirit that still inspires humanity 500 years on.
The cathedral - named in honor of Santa Maria del Fiore — is a vast Gothic structure built on the site of the 7th century…
The Death of Socrates is a masterpiece by French painter Jacques-Louis David in 1787. It depicts the story of the execution of Socrates as told by Plato in his Phaedo .
Socrates has been convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens and introducing strange gods, and…
The Conversion of Mary Magdalene painting is one of Paolo Veronese’s earliest works, painted when he was about 18, probably for a noble patron in Verona. The lighting from the right suggests that it was made for a specific location, perhaps the side wall of a chapel. The painting demonstrates Veronese’s sophisticated approach to narrative…
By Evan Mantyk, president of the Society of Classical Poets and a high school English teacher in Upstate New York.
A Quick Sonnet Guide.
A traditional sonnet should have…
14 lines.
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Rhyming. The most common is the Shakespearean rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. These 14 letters represent the sonnet’s 14 lines and the same…
Great episode to watch with kids and learn about world's history in an entertaining and heartfelt way.
The Great Antiques Map of Britain is a family-friendly TV show. Join its host Tim Wonnacott as he meets locals with their precious antiques which help tell the story of this historic city at the Bristol Harbour Festival, UK.
Tim…
Everybody loves a big painting, in fact one of my professors once said that "big isn't better, it's just better." And he meant that even if the painting is banal and about something uninteresting like shoe laces, if it's big it commands attention and must be reckoned with.
Luckily this big painting isn't boring or banal,…
Leonardo da Vinci is one of history's greatest artists and thinkers. Only about 15 of his paintings are known to exist and one was thought to be lost forever. Leonard painted that masterpiece, called "Salvator Mundi" (Savior of the World) around 1500. It was owned by no less than three kings and, in 1763, it…