Stonehenge Stonehenge is located on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. This is about 85 miles southwest from London. This structure is made of megalithic boulders weighing any where between one and forty five tons and arranged in a circular and horseshoe patterns. The early records indicate ...

The Renaissance was a \'rebirth\' or renewal of many of the classical ancient Greek and Roman beliefs. The Renaissance began in the city-states of Italy, the center of trade in Europe. Many wealthy merchants and bankers became patrons of the newly developing styles and ideals of Renaissance art. Ma...

The ancestors of man were experimenting with art over 12 thousand years ago - paintings as far back as 15,000 to 10,000 BC have been found in caves. Our history of painting was slow to mature into the art we know and appreciate today. The most prolific period was the Renaissance period, with some ...

The Early Renaissance or the Florentine Renaissance all started when the Italian artists and intellectual minds felt an urge to return to their Classical roots. Having felt that they had broken radically with the past they began to speak of a rebirth of civilization. They rejected the more recent, ...