John Constable was a British icon known for countryside landscape painting. He was primarily known for the paintings he did of the River Stour, although after his painting of the river became famous, people called it “Constable country.”  Constable country… Continue Reading →

The Watt Steam Engine One of the biggest problems of the 16 and 17 century was removing water from mines and thus the steam engine was created to create a vacuum from condensation. In mid 1700’s James Watt was a… Continue Reading →

Although witches are known to be fiction in our present day they weren’t thought the same back 500 or so years ago. Witches were considered actually a vast majority of people in certain communities almost making 50%. The existence of… Continue Reading →

Background Nicolas Poussin was the french creator of the classical tradition movement. Throughout his life he spent most of it painting in Rome. His painting theme was historical, such as biblical and ancient history. Most of his paintings demonstrated a… Continue Reading →

Big swords, shiny armor and bright colours clashing into one another in total chaos, the bigger army taking all is how medieval warfare is commonly viewed to most. But though my research I found that certain uses of their medieval… Continue Reading →

Jacopo Robusti but commonly known as Tintoretto was an Italian painter who was one of the peak artists of the High Renaissance. His concentrations in paintings were on the drama of light and how its revolved around space. It was… Continue Reading →

In the early stages of tattoos and body art various different types of natural materials were used as their toolkit, such as marrow from animals and various ochre etc. The marrows were antlers or pointed bone to be used to… Continue Reading →

Paolo di Dono but commonly known as Paolo Uccello grew up in Florence. He spent most of his life there as a painter. His painting style revolved around two popular forms, Late Gothic, and then Heroic style during the early… Continue Reading →