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Alejandria is one of the firsts museums of history. Ptolomeo Filadelfio (second pharaoh of the ptolomeic dinasty) calls it musion. cHARLES Magne sent people to build it.
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Roman Emperor Adriano, built a villa in Tibur where he produced different buildings and scenarios throughout the empire for people to see. It also had libraries, theaters, temples. bathrooms
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Egyptian, Greek/Hellenistic and Roman art.
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By the fifth century, the Church gained a lot of power, and with this, posetions like religious art and sculptures. Different churches displayed, and still do, all of this art in its treasuries, that work like museums. Nowadays, they also display ancient clothes and objects for mass.
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Early Christian, Celtic, Byzantine, Coptic, Orthodox, Islamic, Romanesque and gothic
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The Bizantyne emperor Constantine, an avid collector and archeologist showed his treasures in a showcase called Pentapyrgion during religious and political celebrations.
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Chineese emperors were fervent collectors of art, they would display them and people could look at it. In this time, art critique started in this country.
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Early Renaissance with Late Gothic elements, Northern Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, Late Renaissance/Mannerism/Transitional Period
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Highly ornate, precise and often extravagant style of painting
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Exceptionally ornamental and theatrical, almost fairy-tale like style of art
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Realism, in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.
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Impressionism is an art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities, ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.
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Fauvism is the style of les Fauves, a group of early twentieth-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.
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Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.
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Surrealism is a cultural movement that started in 1917,and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes, sometimes with photographic precision, creating strange creatures from everyday objects, and developing painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.
