Search results
13 hours ago · Erasmus traveled widely and regularly, for reasons of poverty, "escape" from his Stein canonry (to Cambrai), education (to Paris, Turin), escape from the sweating sickness plague (to Orléans), employment (to England), searching libraries for manuscripts, writing , royal counsel , patronage, tutoring and chaperoning (North Italy), networking ...
13 hours ago · Pittsburgh ( / ˈpɪtsbɜːrɡ / PITS-burg) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. It is the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia and the 68th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 census. The city anchors the Pittsburgh metropolitan ...
13 hours ago · The Salon de la Section d'Or at the Galerie La Boétie in Paris, October 1912, was arguably the most important pre-World War I Cubist exhibition; exposing Cubism to a wide audience. Over 200 works were displayed, and the fact that many of the artists showed artworks representative of their development from 1909 to 1912 gave the exhibition the ...
13 hours ago · This proto-cubist work is considered a seminal influence on subsequent trends in modernist painting. Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon Guggenheim Museum completed in 1959 [1] Modernism is a movement that attempts a radical break with previous ideas in art, literature, philosophy, culture, and social organization [clarification needed].
13 hours ago · With the death in 1477 of Charles the Bold, France and the Habsburgs began a long process of dividing his rich Burgundian lands, leading to numerous wars. In 1532, Brittany was incorporated into the Kingdom of France. France engaged in the long Italian Wars (1494–1559), which marked the beginning of early modern France.
13 hours ago · Musée d’Orsay is a beloved art gallery and former train station on the Seine in Paris. It’s known around the world for its impressive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist ...
13 hours ago · Structure and general properties. Hydrogen cyanide is a linear molecule, with a triple bond between carbon and nitrogen. The tautomer of HCN is HNC, hydrogen isocyanide. [citation needed] HCN has a faint bitter almond -like odor that some people are unable to detect owing to a recessive genetic trait. [13] The volatile compound has been used as ...
