#arts-humanities

The Baroque and Rococo art movements were two major periods in European art history that followed one another in the late 16th century to the 18th...    Read more

High Fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy literature that is characterized by epic world-building, complex magic systems, and the use of archetypal...    Read more

Icelandic poetry has a rich and extensive history that spans over a thousand years. The oldest surviving Icelandic poetry dates back to the 9th...    Read more

Matthew Wong was a contemporary landscape painter whose work often addressed themes of isolation and melancholy. He used bold brushstrokes and rich...    Read more

Scheherazade is a character from the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the Arabian Nights, also known as One Thousand and One Nights. She...    Read more

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets, and critics founded in 1848. They sought to revive the style and techniques of...    Read more

The One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales, compiled in Arabic during the Islamic...    Read more

Roman playwrights contributed greatly to the development of Western drama, creating many of the forms and conventions that are still used today. The...    Read more

Jean Arp was a prominent artist and sculptor born in Strasbourg, France in 1886. He is known for his contributions to Dadaism and Surrealism...    Read more

Symbolism is a powerful tool that authors use to convey deeper meanings and themes in their writing. Essentially, symbolism is the use of one thing...    Read more