In the early 1960s, The Bread & Puppet Theater appeared in New York. The creators of the performance were Elka and Peter Schumann, the name comes from the practice of distributing bread with garlic aioli sauce during theatrical performances. The...

Bluett & Sons is one of the largest British companies that has been trading Chinese art for more than a hundred years. It was founded in 1884 by Alfred Ernest Blewett, later joined by Leonard Blewett and Edgar Blewett. For several generations, the...

In the Pomeranian voivodeship in Poland, a tomb of the XI–XII centuries was found, in which, judging by the finds, a representative of the local elite was buried. Historians have received a wealth of material to study: a fully preserved bronze bowl, an...

In 1855, businessman King Camp Gillett was born in Wisconsin, USA, who became known all over the world for improving the shaving machine and launching it into mass production. Back in 1847, William Henson applied for a patent, which outlined the design...

Michel or Michel Kikoin is a prominent representative of the Paris School, an international community of artists who worked mainly in the style of avant-garde. The criteria according to which the artists were referred to the Paris School, as such, were...

There are cases when it is enough to take one look at the picture to then immerse yourself in the past for a few hours. And then the darkest day will be filled with warmth and bright emotions. These are the feelings that these landscapes of Hawaii give...

Gerard Mercator was one of those cartographers who made an invaluable contribution to the development of cartography by using an equiangular cylindrical projection in his works. Although such a projection was used even before Mercator was born, it was...

Lviv Art Gallery has digitized more than 1 thousand works of art, which are now available online. On the gallery's website, paintings, graphics, works by sculptors with a description of each exhibit are presented in high quality. During the digitization...

Lundby of Sweden is a Swedish company that began producing miniature furniture and dollhouses in the late 40s of the last century. It was the first manufacturer of toy houses, which began to equip products with electrical equipment to achieve maximum...

In our last article, we talked about a very rare coin of the late Middle Ages - Paul of George Wilhelm thaler. Today is our story about Gdansk ducat one of the most interesting rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian state (Rzeczpospolita) - King Stefan Batory...