Casa Milá: a modernist building in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was the last private residence designed by architect Antoni Gaudí and was built between 1906 and 1912.
Juníper Serra: a Roman Catholic Spanish priest of the Franciscan Order who founded a mission in Baja California and the first nine of 21 Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco. Because of Serra’s recorded acts of piety combined with his missionary efforts, he was granted the posthumous title Apostle of California.
Raisonnés: a comprehensive, annotated listing of all the known artworks by the Impressionists by all media
Cubists: Painters from the cubism movement, an early-20th-century art movement which brought European painting and scuplture historically forward toward 20th century Modern art.
Surrealists: a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects, and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself
Old Masters: any painter of skill who worked in Europe before about 1800, or a painting by such an artist.
William Blake: an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: a book by the English poet and printmaker William Blake. It is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake’s own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs. Like his other books, it was published as printed sheets from etched plates containing prose, poetry and illustrations.
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