THE ART collection displayed on the second floor of Bratislava Castle is a result of acquisitions from several generations of art historians. It contains sacral as well as secular works, primarily ...

arl Marx’s famous quip that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce,” fits the so-called revival of miniature painting in Pakistan. The process started in the ...

Michael Hogan didn’t know he’d one day be constructing a miniature art museum when, on a whim, he bid on a $500 dollhouse in an online auction back in 2016. “I was just going to redo the dollhouses as ...

The following interesting sounding volume entitled Portrait Miniatures - Artists, Functions, Manufacturing Aspects, and Collections has just been released (spotted via @karins42). The book is a ...

"WPA Mural Studies" – When a Bend, Oregon, woman inherited six large paintings created by her aunt, Thelma Johnson Streat, she believed she’d been given a special window into American history. She ...

Want to go into the trenches with U.S. and German infantrymen and tanks from World War II, land with the U.S. Marines on Peleliu Island in 1944 to capture a strategic airstrip, or look into the eyes ...

On March 26, 1863, Amalia Kussner was born to her German immigrant parents, Lorenz and Emmaline Kussner. Her father would start a music store in Terre Haute. From a young age it was clear that Amalia ...

Miniature painting as a hobby seems to be a bit of a unique beast: popular enough that you can find models for nearly everything under the sun, but so niche that the methods of doing it are most often ...