Japanese ceramic and lacquer objects have been collected and used as interior decorations in Europe since the early seventeenth century, and in the nineteenth century the fashion for Japonisme saw a boom of importing various Japanese decorative arts. Museums and private collections all over the world have rich holdings of Japanese decorative arts, however, the systematic research of Japanese de...

ARTH 431/631-010 SEM: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE OF PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS The distinctive regional culture of the Pennsylvania-Germans in the 18th and 19th centuries examined through the study of their cultural landscapes, houses and other buildings, decorative arts, gravestones, and manuscript traditions. Explores themes of ethnic aesthetic expression, sectarian culture, community identity, and the fu...

Girland, takılı olduğu iki veya daha fazla nokta arasına çiçek, yaprak ve meyvelerle düzenlenerek asılan; aşağıya doğru sarkarak yarım çelenk görünümü veren bir bezeme öğesidir. Çeşitli dolgu askı nesneleriyle birlikte tasarlanan girland Antik Yunan Roma sanatında ölü kültüyle ilişkili olarak lahit sunaklarda yanısıra çeşitli yapıların cephelerinde de karşımıza çıkar. Bu motif ritmi estetiğiyle...

due to human beings’ aesthetic sense, they have always been engaged in embellishing their living environment throughout the history. given the different culture, customs, beliefs and even varied policy of each society, the applied arts or decorative styles have constantly been evolved. the qajar architecture was influenced by russian and central europe styles, and by combining them with the ira...

ARTH 440-010 ART & WARFARE IN LATIN AMERICA Battle scenes, revolts, arms, soldiers and heroes as shaped in the arts of Latin America from pre-Hispanic to modern times. ARTH 605-010 EGYPTOMANIA Explores ways that Western cultures have constructed the idea of and appropriated Egypt from antiquity to the present day. Source materials include writings, picture books, architecture, fine art, decorat...

Founded in 2002, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide is a scholarly, refereed e-journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts across globe.