The impressive body of work by 19th-century lithographers Nathaniel Currier and James Ives is widely recognized today as hallmark Americana. Currier & Ives, as their business was known, specialized in producing inexpensive lithographic prints that were sold throughout the United States and in Europe, ranging from a couple dimes to $5, depending on size and…
Currier and Ives, Two Illustrators Who Created Colorful Prints Found in Nearly Every Home in 19th-Century America
April 11, 2022
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Bringing the Natural World Indoors: How to Craft Your Way to Happiness
You may have noticed the recent movement toward huge picture windows and fancy bifold doors being fitted into people’s homes. Maybe you’re one of those people. Maybe your neighbors are (and you secretly envy them). What’s fueling this desire to install gigantic plates of glass in our walls? Simply put, it’s to bring the outside…
The Life of Filippo Brunelleschi, Sculptor and Architect
Many men are created by nature small in person and in features, who have a mind full of such greatness and a heart of such irresistible vehemence, that if they do not begin difficult—nay, almost impossible—undertakings, and bring them to completion to the marvel of all who behold them, they have never any peace in…
Life of Sandro Botticelli
April 7, 2022
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At the same time with the elder Lorenzo de’ Medici, the Magnificent, which was truly a golden age for men of intellect, there also flourished one Alessandro, called Sandro after our custom, and surnamed Di Botticello for a reason that we shall see below. This man was the son of Mariano Filipepi, a citizen of…
The Course of Empire
In the early 19th century, the United States of America was still a newborn nation. As Americans turned their eyes Westward, a new and uncertain future awaited them. The North American continent was far from fully explored, and America’s identity was still in the process of self-discovery. Artists of the Romantic era in America—and particularly…
Reawakening the Artist Within
Carmen Gloria Perez always dreamed about traveling the world. Then, when she was just 10 years old, her parents split up, and her mother took her from New York to Puerto Rico in hopes of starting fresh. Life was difficult, and her family had to rely on government assistance to get by. “When I was…
2 Origami Warriors Folded From a Single Sheet of Paper—Check Out the Incredible Details
The scene: two knights face off in an intense battle; one knight slashes with his longsword while the other crouches to block the hit with a round shield. “Both are shouting with their mouths open while the capes are flowing in the action and the wind. The shielded knight has scaled armor with many rectangular…
Armless Ballerina Reaching for the Stars
She had a dream of being a dancer, and now watch her float across the stage.
Divine Messengers | Socrates Secrets (Episode 2)
March 10, 2022
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Scholars agree that the ancient Greeks laid the foundation for Western civilization in various areas, including art, science, theater, and democracy. In the center of all of this was a man who would become one of the most well-known Greeks throughout time, and maybe one with the greatest influence on our thinking in the Western…
[COMING SOON] Divine Messengers | Socrates Secrets (Episode 2)
March 10, 2022
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Scholars agree that the ancient Greeks laid the foundation for Western civilization in various areas, including art, science, theater, and democracy. In the center of all of this was a man who would become one of the most well-known Greeks throughout time, and maybe one with the greatest influence on our thinking in the Western…
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