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Dec 2, 2022
One painting from every year of the 17th century, from China to India and Italy to Mexico and everywhere in between, in chronological order. 1601: The Calling of Saint Matthew by Caravaggio 1/100 twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1598536718910599168
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Sep 18, 2023
Who was the greatest artist of the 20th century? People talk about Picasso and Dalí, but here's a name you probably haven't heard: Hasui Kawase, the last master of Japanese ukiyo-e. It sounds oddly specific, but no other artist in history was so go
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Apr 24, 2023
This is Barcelona at night, one of the world's most unique cities. But why does it look like that? Well, until 1855 it was overcrowded, dirty, and diseased — then something special happened. Here is how you build a beautiful city... twitter.com/cul
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Mar 19, 2023
Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany is one of the world's most famous and beautiful castles. But it isn't a real castle: it has central heating, hot water, flushing toilets, telephones, and elevators. Because Neuschwanstein is actually the world's big
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Feb 9, 2023
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, painted by Pablo Picasso in 1907, is probably the most influential work of modern art. But he didn't come up with it all himself. Picasso borrowed from the art of West Africa, ancient Iberian sculpture, an obscure Medieva
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Feb 6, 2023
Have you ever noticed that the save icon is a floppy disk, even though they became obsolete twenty years ago? That's called a "skeuomorph" - when something new takes on the appearance of what it replaced. And once you start to look, they're everywh
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Jan 10, 2023
Skyscrapers used to be Art Deco and neo-Gothic, so what happened? twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1612764414033399808/photo/1
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Jan 9, 2023
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created by Hokusai in 1831, is one of the world's most famous paintings. But why are there more than 100 different versions of it in galleries all around the world? Because it isn't actually a painting... twitter.com/cu
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Jan 3, 2023
Mosques are filled with complex geometry, kaleidoscopic colour, and intricate ornamentation. Why do they look like that? twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1610289789940695041/photo/1
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Dec 22, 2022
This small church in Poland might look ordinary, but inside is a chapel made of human skeletons. It took one man eighteen years to build. Why did he do it? twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1606031570531684352/photo/1
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Nov 20, 2022
Why did René Magritte paint a man with his face hidden by an apple in 1946? And why did he call it The Son of Man? Welcome to the uncanny world of Surrealism... twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1594457525511802880/photo/1
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