(Encyclopedia) Brooklyn Museum of Art, museum in the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. Its predecessors were the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library (1823), the Brooklyn Institute (1843), and the Brooklyn…
WHAT WERE THE FIRST WORKS OF LITERATURE? IS LITERATURE DIFFERENT AROUND THE WORLD? WHY DO PEOPLE WRITE LITERATURE? NOVELSGENRESPLOTSMYTHSNONFICTIONFIND OUT MORELiterature uses words to create works…
(Encyclopedia) naturalism, in art, a tendency toward strict adherence to the physical appearance of nature and rejection of ideal forms. Artists as diverse as Velázquez, J. F. Millet, and Monet, have…
(Encyclopedia) National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, established by an act of Congress, 1937. Andrew W. Mellon donated funds for construction of the…
