Featured Lenses This Week

Michelangelo's David

The stature and prominence, the importance and influence of Michelangelo's David statue may surprise you! The David statue tells a story, yes, and that story is here.  But the statue has his OWN story to tell, one that not many people know. I have...

Borneo Cave Art

The Discovery of Artifacts Art deep in the jungle forest of Borneo really an eye opener for archaeologist, anthropologist, speleologist, photographer alike to come and examine the people who lives these part of the world. The 10,000.00 year old painti...

John William Waterhouse

Waterhouse, known to his family and friends as Nino, was born in Italy in 1849 to English parents. He moved to London at an early age. His father was an artist and John William followed in his footsteps. This lens is dedicated to my favorite Waterhou...

Kimono: Wind and Water Made Wearable

The kimono is the wrapped-and-tied, robe-like garment that is the national costume for Japan.  Whether your kimono interest is historical, theatrical, fashionable or textile, this lens has something for you! Please rate this lens if it was helpfu...

Greek Museums ~MACEDONIA~

When I started my first lens about the Greek Museums I hadn't taken under consideration the amount of museums you can find around Greece! By the moment I finished with the two major cities of Greece, Athens and Thessaloniki, I figured out that my len...

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More Featured Lenses for the Antiques Lover! Discover the serendipity of Antique Art! Our lens-masters are experts in the field, with a variety of degrees in archeology, history, anthropology and other disciplines. See the beauty with their eyes, and...

Victoria's Curio exclusively on Ruby Lane

Victoria's Curio is known for Rosenthal, R.S. Prussia, Hermann Ohme, Austrian, and more wonderful European porcelain. Our specialty (and favorite) is chocolate pots. But, you can also find tea sets, hand painted plates and bowls plus beautiful Ster...

Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal

Myth major seeks armchair travellers, art lovers, and born-again pagans for a ramble through the ruins of ancient Greece. Odyssey Latest Update: Mycenae Museum Posted 4.25.08 I visited Greece in spring 2005 for the first time, where I have been going...

Saint Michael The Archangel

Saint Michael  the Archangel belongs to the Third Hierarchy of  the Choirs of Angels known as Messengers.We first hear of Saint Michael in the great battle in heaven with satan or Lucifer, Apocalypse 12,7. After the revolt of Lucifer where o...

Greek Museums: Peloponnese

This lens is dedicated to Peloponnese, Greece. Peloponnese has some of the richest historic and archaeological traditions in Greece. Enough is to say that is the place where the Mycenaean Civilization flourished and the place where the great Ancient...

Investing in Antique English Silver

Financial experts predict that over the course of the next five years the price of silver is likely to rise by 1000 percent.  During the last two years alone the price of scrap sterling has almost doubled and this price increase has filtered thr...

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Kutani Porcelain

This lens is about one of my favorite Japanese Antique porcelain styles named KUTANI. I hope you'll enjoy reading about it! It is not only beautiful and highly valuable, but also rich in historical and Artistic content. Look at the picture and review...

Art Nouveau

An international style of decoration and architecture which developed in the 1880s and 1890s. The name derives from the Maison de l'Art Nouveau, an interior design gallery opened in Paris in 1896, but in fact the movement had different names througho...

Bernstein Zimmer Amber Room

This lens describes the famous Bernstein Zimmer as the Amber Room is called in German. Information about the mysterious disappearance of this masterpiece of Art, as well as a description of the new, restored version of the room is provided.  Wha...

St. Anthony

I promised to make a lens in honor of Saint Anthony as my gratitude for finding a very important card that got lost in the confines of my home. You see I used it as a bookmark and I  didn't have any recollection or memory of what I had done with...

Limoges Porcelain

This lens will explore the porcelain style known to collectors as Limoges. Limoges is not really a maker's brand, rather, it is a collection of excellent, highly refined porcelain manufacturers who settled in and around the city of Limoges in France....

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John William Godward

9 August 1861 – 13 December 1922) was an English painter from the end of the Pre-Raphaelite into Neo-Classicist era. He was a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema but his style of painting fell out of favour with the arrival of pai...

Botticelli

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli (March 1, 1444/45 – May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a hundred years later, this move...

Lord Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (3 December 1830–25 January 1896) was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter. Leighton was born in Scarborough to a family in the import &...

Greek Museums ~CRETE~

When I started my first lens about the Greek Museums I hadn't taken under consideration the amount of museums you can find around Greece! By the moment I finished with the two major cities of Greece, Athens and Thessaloniki, I figured out that my len...

Remedios Varo

Remedios Varo (December 16, 1908 - October 8, 1963) was a Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter. She was born in Anglés Cataluña, Spain in 1908 and died from a heart-attack in Mexico City in 1963. During the Spanish Civil War she fled to P...