The Mona Lisa is widely considered as the most famous artwork in history. While we continue to celebrate Leonardo da Vinci, the artist of this masterpiece, it would be appropriate...
Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most influential artists during the Renaissance period (14th century to 17th century). Many have described the Italian painter as a genius whose works...
Completed around 1517, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is arguably the most popular artwork of all time. The half-length Renaissance portrait depicts an image of a lady believed to be...
After the long and arduous years of the medieval period (also known as the Middle Ages) which were plagued by the Crusades and many atrocities, Europe entered into the period...
In the course of human history, there have been some very amazingly brilliant painters. And even among that elite group of painters that have graced the art world, there are...
From Richard Wagner to Beethoven, World History Edu presents the 12 greatest German composers in history, including their most notable achievements. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach The saying“like father, like son”...
Fela Kuti: Fast Facts Born: Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti Birth date and Place: October 15, 1938; Abeokuta, Western Region, British Nigeria (present-day Ogun State, Nigeria) Death date and Place: August...
Worldhistoryedu.com presents to you +15 things that you probably did not know about Fela Kuti, the legendary Nigerian musician, songwriter and political activist. Fela Kuti: Fast Facts Born: Olufela Olusegun...
Marvin Gaye, the R&B legend who brought us classics like “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and “Sexual Healing”, was only three years old when he started singing in his...
With several tens of millions of records sold in his breath-taking and record-breaking musical career, Bob Marley is regarded as the undisputed king in the reggae music genre. In the...
Why is Michael Jackson so important? What are some of his major contributions to the world of pop music and pop culture in general? Worldhistoryedu.com delves into 9 remarkable achievements...
Many historians and critics regard Bono a tremendous musical figure as important to music as say Albert Einstein was to physics. Throughout his record-breaking and award-laden musical career as the...
An Abstract Expressionist painter is one who makes artworks that have no recognizable subject. Emerging in the 1940s, just before World War II, the abstract expressionism movement firmly placed New...
Developed around the 1940s in New York City, the Abstract Expressionism movement is an art movement that is most known for having no subject attached to the artwork. In its...
Raphael, born Raffaello Sanzio de Urbino, was a High Renaissance artist whose artworks are seen by many as the epitome of artistic ingenuity of the Renaissance era. Raphael’s paintings are...
