Body art is an ancient but populous form of body enhancement. There are various reasons why people engage in body art such as coiffure, body painting, body markings and the like. Some are done for purely aesthetic or decorative purposes while others are for medicinal, spiritual, entertainment, identification or symbolic […]
The Mayan religion also known as Maya, was born in Mesoamerica approximately 250 AD. This particular religion was influenced by the Olmecs. Within the first 650 years, the civilization of the Mayans ended up taking over 40 large cities which laid out across Mexico, North Belize and Guatemala. This period […]
Geoffrey Chaucer as a Father of English Poetry Introduction: Geoffrey Chaucer is called the father of English poetry. He symbolizes the Middle Ages, as no other writer does. He stands in much the same relation to the life of his time as Alexander Pope does to the 18th century and […]
The world of animation has many different niches that can be covered. You will find that for people who are interested in animation Japanese style animation is taking off quite nicely. The influence of this style of animating can be seen in a number of different forms and countries. While […]
While there is no lone characteristic that distinguishes a conductor’s stand from a musician’s stand, the one commonality that conductors’ stands seem to share is that they are much stronger (and very often larger) than regular music stands. Extra strength and size can be built into a stand in several […]
French artiste Thomas Couture (1815-1879) was a popular ‘History’ & ‘Classical’ painter of ‘Realist’ flavor, portraitist, and the teacher of the nineteenth century. ‘History Painting,’ considered the ‘grand genre’ for a long time, dates back to the ‘Renaissance’ era. Couture’s most famous painting “Romans in the Decadence of the Empire” […]