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As a painter, Camille Pissarro was fascinated by the interchange of light and color. He often painted the same landscape at different times of the day, to study the way changing and moving light modified the perception of color. In Camille Pissarro’s rural images of harvesting and shepherding, sensuous color is often a gradually nuanced pool of light that mirrors the movement of wind, clouds, and fields –within which the human story is indistinguishable from the essence of light. The Impressionist engagement of nature concurred with the primal human experience of nature, which depended on submitting life to both the measured and unexpected patterns of nature. The artistic sensibility toward color... |
 "The French capital fell under the spell of the Belle Epoque from 1880 through to the start of the First World War. Catch the atmosphere of the "beautiful era" this spring, when the honey-hued buildings are bathed in sunshine…"
 "We were young, we were merry, we were very very wise,/And the door stood open at our feast,/When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,/And a man with his back to the East."
 "Love was not necessarily part of the tale in 15th-century Italian Renaissance marriages, however. If love developed after marriage, that was fortunate. Instead, marriage was a legal contract agreed..."
 "This most physical of all painters took people and places, trees, roads, houses, steeples and made them more real still under the light of the setting sun, the mystery of twilight or the brightness of the moon."
 "Quartz is the most abundant material in the Earth's continental crust, made up of a lattice of silica tetrahedra. In ideal conditions it forms a perfectly clear six-sided prism and is commonly found..."
 "No city ever made a more dramatic entrance. Petra, the capital of the ancient Nabataeans, in present-day Jordan, is accessible only by a chasm called the Siq, nearly a mile long. Its sandstone walls..."
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 "Wudang Mountain, located near Shiyan city in north western Hubei Province, is more than just a famous scenic spot. Wudangshan is the home of internal martial arts and a spiritual centre for Chinas native religion, Daoism."
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 "As the exhibition makes clear, artists from many different countries were drawn to the famous city on the River Elbe in the 18th century. Titled 'Ideals. Yearning and Reality. 18th-century Paintings for Dresden'..."
 "There is no question that Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was an enigma even among the avant-garde post-Impressionist painters of his time and friends like Camille Pissarro and Vincent Van Gogh, with whom he had a famous falling out."
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 "The wines from Scorpion’s tomb were brought in from the Jordan River valley, as Epyptian vineyards were not yet established. Discovery of this winery is one of several from ancient Egypt, China and elsewhere..."
 "In Smorodov's tiny factory, entrepreneurship has done battle with gangsters and crooked officials, and traditions persist in the midst of what is supposed to have changed. It is a snapshot of what Russia has been..."
 "This High-Victorian display hall, opened in 1884, is built like an engine shed decked with three storeys of wrought-iron verandas stuffed with the handmade objects from a thousand lost cultures."
 "Wild weeds are powerful medicine, loaded with cold or yin energy to dispel heat. Zhang Qian forages for the truth about pig's thigh, daisy, bracken fern, and field sow's thistle."
 "We know that these paintings can be viewed as controversial...but we see them in a positive light. It is fascinating to see places in the Muslim world that now no longer exist."
 Ancient civilizations had an amazingly wide-ranging cuisine. The conquests, explorations, and trade routes of the Roman Empire provided the Romans with sources for the most diverse foodstuffs.  "It didn't sell at first...at a penny each. Then a young scholar called Stokes found one, showed it to the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (who thought it as beautiful as the book of Ecclesiastes), hence to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and eventually John Ruskin..."
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