Art and Architecture, mainly

Since 1990 when I started my art history degree, of all the paintings in the Western World, my absolute favourites have been Dutch works pai...

Joseph Berlin (1877-1952) was born in Mogilev Russia/now Belarus. He studied at St Pet­ersburg Academy of Art graduating in 1911, winning ...

Known as the Father of British Landscape Architecture, Lancelot Cap­ab­ility Brown (1716-83) started life as an estate worker's son. Th...

Shirley Temple (1928-2014) was born in in Santa Monica Cal. As a child Temple showed interest in dancing and singing so in 1931, her mother...

The 1963 Bulletin of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art noted a little-known London inventor, George Remington , took out a 14-year ...