Nautilus cups are well known to many. And lovers of decorative and applied arts, as outstanding creations of jewelers of past centuries, and admirers of
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The Poldi Pezzoli Museum is one of the most interesting museums in Milan, with a wonderful collection of fine and decorative arts from different centuries.
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Pompeii was systematically dug up, turned into a museum and away we go. Noble gentlemen literally went crazy from the richness of the decorative interior
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Collection of Fabergé flowers and berries The Faberge jewelry company is known today primarily for Easter eggs with a surprise, which for 32 years it
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Favorite jewel of Elizabeth II. The history of the luxurious Vladimir tiara The Vladimir tiara survived the revolution and upheavals of the early 20th century,
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John Duncan was born in the Scottish city of Dundee. There were no artists in his family, but the boy was artistically gifted and at
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Raphael’s masterpiece and late Renaissance graffiti. Villa Farnesina in Rome There is a place in Rome that has preserved to this day not only an
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Maria Longworth Nichols Storer (1849-1932) founded a ceramic factory in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880. Maria Longworth was born into one of the wealthiest families in
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Kataro Shirayamadani (1865-1948), also known as Kitaro Shirayamadani, was a Japanese ceramist and artist who worked at the Rookwood Pottery factory in Cincinnati (USA) from
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A lot has changed in the last hundred years. People of the beginning of the 20th century did not know television, cell phones, or even
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