Victor Gruen

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Vandalized Art list. Combo of EB owned illustration (top) and parent Asset 182294. 4 of 11 The Rokeby Venus by Diego Velazquez was hit with a meat cleaver by Mary Richardson

Art Abuse: 11 Vandalized Works of Art

Painting palette with oil paints and brushes. Rainbow colored paints, arts and entertainment

Art History: The Origins of 7 of Your Favorite Art Supplies

Night view of the Opera House and new business quarter, Oslo, Norway.

These 8 Buildings Will Make You See Norway in a New Light

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's House, Weimar,Germany; photocrom print published between 1890-1900.

5 Historically Significant Houses in Germany

Members of the public view artwork by Damien Hirst entitled: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living - in the Tate Modern art gallery on April 2, 2012 in London, England. (see notes) (1991) Tiger shark, glass, steel

Vile or Visionary?: 11 Art Controversies of the Last Four Centuries

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Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.

What is Holy Week?

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)

The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"

How Deadly Is Quicksand?

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Born	July 18, 1903 • Vienna • Austria
Died	February 14, 1980 (aged 76) • Vienna • Austria

Daniel Burnham

American architect

Richard Joseph Neutra

Austrian-American architect

Frederick John Kiesler

American architect and sculptor

Le Corbusier

Swiss architect

Arata Isozaki

Japanese architect

Jane Drew

British architect

George Dance, the Younger

British architect and artist

Jules Hardouin-Mansart

French architect

Asplund, Gunnar: Göteborg Law Courts extension

Gunnar Asplund

Swedish architect

Andrés Duany

American architect

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

American architect

Bertrand Goldberg

American architect

Walter Gropius

German-American architect

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach

Austrian architect

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

American architect

Walter Netsch

American architect

I.M. Pei

American architect

H.H. Richardson

American architect

Peter Eisenman

American architect

Helmut Jahn

German-American architect

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Close-up of a palette held by a man. Mixing paint, painting, color mixing.

Artists, Painters, & Architects

Hagia Sophia. Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople. Church of the Holy Wisdom. Church of the Divine Wisdom. Mosque.

Architecture: The Built World

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