by art85admin | Oct 13, 2016 | Class Lectures
Italian Renaissance “Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.” —Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Painter, sculptor, architect and poet Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 to February 18, 1564) is...
by art85admin | Oct 4, 2016 | Class Lectures, Printing v. Internet
Phoenician Alphabet Beginning in the 9th century BC, adaptations of the Phoenician alphabet thrived, including Greek, Old Italic, Anatolian, and the Paleohispanic scripts. The alphabet’s attractive innovation was its phonetic nature, in which one sound was...
by art85admin | Sep 18, 2016 | Class Lectures
CHARLEMAGNE’S EARLY YEARS Charlemagne was born around 742, the son of Bertrada of Laon (d.783) and Pepin the Short (d.768), who became king of the Franks in 751. Charlemagne’s exact birthplace is unknown, although historians have suggested Liege in present-day Belgium...
by art85admin | Sep 14, 2015 | Class Lectures
Lascaux cave paintings http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/?lng=en Hieroglyphics http://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egyptian-hieroglyphics.html Petroglyphs http://www.ancestral.com/meaning.html Ishango Bone...