One of the oldest and most important city of Romania , Iasi was over it's long history the capital of Moldavia and for a short while of Romania , and nowadays in the fourth largest ...

Sinaia is one of the most popular and beautiful Romanian tourist resorts and small towns, near the Bucegi Mountains, on the Prahova Valley, a place with several important landmarks - the ...

A small distance from the city of Suceava you can discover a small, yet important monastery in Moldavia , Arbore, dating from the 16 th century and preserved in surprisingly good ...

The first ever Impressionist exhibition took place in 1874, between April 15 th - May 15 th , when the former studio of Nadar, in Paris , became the stage for a show which will make art ...

Born on September 21 st 1934 in Quebec, Leonard Norman Cohen, coming from a Jewish family, would be known in just a few decades as a poet, writer, composer, musician, singer, showman, ...

The Voronet Monastery is one of the oldest and most beautiful places of worship in Romania, a legendary place whose history began with a small wooden church, where lived a holy man, Daniile ...

Is Mark Ryden one of the best contemporary artists or just a controversial fraud, who plays with themes and techniques, wanting to provoke, annoy and shock ? Has he really such an ...

The origins of this beautiful monastery aren't precisely known, but the first documentary sources tell us that a first stone church was built in 1402 - 1410, during the reign of Alexandru ...

Most art historians tend to place the Les Nabis group in a much larger series of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists, who wanted to change European and later world wide through bold ...

Despite World War II and the destruction it caused, the American movie industry had the power to keep on going during the 1940s, and launched several important movies, but also several ...

Released in 1979, this double album of the already famous group Pink Floyd - one of the most important in 20 th century history - would "grow up" to be one of most famous concept albums in ...

Gunter Grass is one of the most importanta German writers of the 20 th century, and his masterpiece - incidentally his first novel - Tin Drum is still remembered as one of the best books ...

Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso were not only great masters of 20 th century art, but also close friends and, furthermore, competitors. A competition that would eventually benefit all : the ...

Modern Times (1936) : Chaplin offered this dystopia to the desperation caused by the crisis that shooked the US economy - and all of the world - and it was one of the best movies featuring ...

Even if most of the American museums and art galleries have sophisticated security systems, armed guards and video cameras, this doesn't mean that the treasures kept inside are safe from ...

Two major French art schools, which played a key-role in the evolution and development of European plastic arts at the end of the 19 th century and the beginning of the 20 th century, ...

Could you choose the best movies of a decade ? Which were the best : those art films that expressed the very essence of the creator of the successful productions, which filled cinemas all ...

Over the 20 th century the world of arts was often shaken - and even stirred - by several major art thefts. All over the world, thiefs of all kinds, better or worse, knowing much about art ...

For many of Vincent van Gogh's admirers, his series of selfportraits - painted mainly in 1886 - 1889, the best part of his career - are among the favourites, as they have become iconic ...