The 501 Artworks containing the word continents - europe

Text by Valerio Vincenzo: “Borderline, the Frontiers of Peace strives to show the results of a historical change that has taken place over the last decades in Europe. Since the signature of the Schengen Agreements in 1985, the borders of most of the European continent have been erased little by litt...

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The search for sea routes to India from Europe to directly acquire Asian commodities was the driving force behind the Voyages of Discovery that profoundly changed the map of the world and world history. As Asian commodities became essential items of European life, domination of Asian trade by Asian ...

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One of the foremost portrait painters in Europe during her lifetime, Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun enjoyed international patronage by European royals and aristocrats. Favored by Marie Antoinette, Vigée-Lebrun was admitted to the Royal Academy in Paris in 1783, becoming one of only four women academi...

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This tapestry, made in Kabul by Afghan embroiders to the designs of Alighiero Boetti, represents the global geopolitical situation at the beginning of the 1970s, with the relative distribution of power. The subdivision of the globe on the basis of the territorial confines of each state, identified b...

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Allegorical figure of Europe from the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory was modelled in 1745 by Johann Joachim Kaendler (1706–1775) and Johann Friedrich Eberlein (1695–1749). Originally there are four figures – Allegory of Europe, Allegory of Asia, Allegory of Africa, and Allegory of America. They repre...

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Latai Taumoepeau describes herself as a punake, a Tongan term describing performance artists, such as dancers, who use their bodies as their medium. ‘Dark Continent’ 2018 is a selection of still photographs that documents Taumoepeau over a period of 48 hours, as she slowly stretched and contorted he...

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In the European context, the Johann Lötz Witwe Glassworks in Klášterský Mlýn (Klostermühle), in the Šumava Mountains, was one of the continent’s most important glass manufacturers. Established in 1836, the company embraced the Art Nouveau style by the late 1880s. At the time, objects imitating semi ...

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This work appears surprisingly in the artist’s oeuvre, his first masterpiece after a long and conscientious apprenticeship. His old friend, artist Tom Roberts, fresh from Europe, must have played a role in its genesis, bringing firsthand news of developments there, particularly of plein air practice...

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A form popular in England and on the Continent from the late sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries, portrait miniatures assumed a range of formats. As the name implies, they were small in scale and designed for intimate viewing. Monarchs, nobles, and politicians exchanged them as favors; ot...

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During the eighteenth century, views of Venice by Canaletto (born Giovanni Antonio Canal) were disseminated widely in Europe, as both paintings and prints. The artist produced these vedute primarily for the burgeoning tourist market in Italy, and particularly for wealthy Englishmen making what was c...

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A painting by the Dutch artist Abraham Storck (1644-1708) titled Ships in Torbay. On the 5th of November 1688, Stadhouder Willem III of the Netherlands and his wife Mary Stuart II invade the British mainland to dispose of King James II of England, Mary’s Father. This Invasion force will later be nam...

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The double statue of Crown Princess Luise and Princess Friederike of Prussia marks a highpoint in European Classicism. For the first time, two female figures were portrayed life-size as a double statue, that is to say, individuals were being depicted who had no claims on posterity by virtue of their...

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In this watercolor by Thomas Davies, among the earliest images of Niagara Falls, the artist places the viewer thrillingly close to the precipice of Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian shore. At the far right of this dramatic vista, Davies depicted two indigenous Americans, while three eagles hover over ...

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Runo LagomarsinoBorn in Lund, Sweden, in 1977.He lives and works in Malmo, Sweden, and Sao Paulo, Brazil.Working in video, drawing, sculpture, and photography, Runo Lagomarsino explores how today’s political and social environments have developed through different discourses and historical processes...

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