Grisaille (from the French gris – “gray”) is a type of art in which the artist creates a work (painting, painting or drawing) using various
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Mosaic made of colored stone has been known since time immemorial. In particular, the Florentine mosaic or its second name “Pietra Dura” (Italian “carved stone”)
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The name of Fulco di Verdura, a famous New York jeweler and designer, is associated with the highest skill in jewelry art. Verdura possessed an
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Associated with the divine flesh, the golden chased mask conveys the bust of the pharaoh, although idealized, but at the same time not devoid of
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The jewelry firm Marcus & Co was founded in New York in 1892 by the Dresden jeweler Hermann Marcus (1828–1899) and his sons William and
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Luxurious outfits of Proust’s muse Countess Grefful from the collection of the Fashion Museum in Paris Elisabeth Grefful was the queen of the Parisian salons
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Marianne Hunter, a self-taught jeweler from California, creates very interesting enamel jewelry. She has an incredible ability to invent jewelry that looks like bright collages
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Charles Worth ’s masquerade costumes for the balls of the French Empress Eugenie For many centuries, masquerade balls have been one of the favorite entertainments
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The ballet libretto was based not on the original fairy tale by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816), but its
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An important milestone in the history of the study and revival of the art of Ancient Egypt is the Egyptian campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte (1798
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