Ravenna, A Mecca For Mosaics

5 Art Nouveau Buildings That Embody the Elegance of This Architectural Style By Samantha Pires on April 18, 2021 From Left to Right: Casa Batlló, Casa Batlló Balcony, Old England Building, Hôtel Tassel, Secession Building, Secession Building Detail, Paris Métro Entrances, Paris Métro Entrances Interior The whimsical Art Nouveau , like many international styles, can be found across almost all creative mediums: art, furniture, architecture, and more. Unlike some of these inter

The Splendid History of Gustav Klimt’s Glistening “Golden Phase” Detail of “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” Austrian artist Gustav Klimt  is one of the most celebrated Symbolist artists. During his successful career, he cultivated a portfolio comprising academic paintings, life drawings, and even decorative art objects. Still, he is most well-known for the collection of glistening, gilded works he produced during his Golden Phase . This luminous period lasted about a decade,

byClaire Voon is a staff writer and reporter at Hyperallergic. Often unremarked or dismissed as state propaganda, Ukraine’s Soviet-era mosaics are also artworks in themselves that speak to a complex history. For three years, photographer Yevgen Nikiforov traveled across Ukraine with an ambitious mission: document as many surviving Soviet-era mosaics as possible. These monumental panels have, for decades, adorned the interiors and exteriors of buildings in nearly every town

Rediscovered in 1934 by Byzantine Institute , The Zoe Mosaic has a lot to tell us about Empress Zoe. Empress Zoe was the daughter of Constantine VIII who wanted her to marry to Argyros before he died. When she married to Argros, Zoe was 50 and still a virgin. After their marriage, Zoe fell in love with a young stable boy, Michael. They killed Argyros by drowning him in the bath. And Michael became Emperor. However, about 7 years later, Michael IV died and his nephew Michae

YES, THE SISTINE CHAPEL AND THE SACRÉ COEUR are impressive pieces of architecture, but, like most Catholic churches , their exterior tend to be sober and austere, lacking the color and the tiny bit of fun that could make walking in a little more tempting. Eastern Orthodox churches don’t have that problem — they tend to be brightly painted, and the “onion domes” that top them make them look straight out of Candy Landy. The most iconic Russian Orthodox church is St. Basil’s Cat