#art of painting

Author: Paul Dean / Source: The Next Web NASA spent much of the 20th century commissioning painters and illustrators to imagine the future of space exploration. When Jeff Norris, the head of Mission Operations Innovation at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), wanted a way to inspire a new generation

Source: Neatorama In late 2017, “Salvator Mundi,” a painting of Jesus Christ called attributed to Leonardo da Vinci was sold in an auction for over $450 million. It was the world’s most expensive painting. The painting was bought by an anonymous bidder, who later turned out to be an ally of the

Author: Hidreley / Source: Bored Panda Paintings of historical interiors are always fascinating as they are a glimpse of the stylistic conventions from past eras. They give us an insight into a past life, decorating trends of the time, people’s lifestyles and, of course, the state of mind of the

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings Nietzsche saw dreams as an evolutionary time machine for the human mind. Dostoyevsky discovered the meaning of life in one. Mendeleev invented his periodic table in another. Neil Gaiman dreamt his way to a philosophical parable of identity. We are

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings A century before Peter Rabbit creator Beatrix Potter revolutionized mycology with her groundbreaking studies and illustrations of mushrooms, which she was banned from presenting at London’s Linnaean Society on account of her gender, another