People Matching Artworks

Nov 7, 2017

Austrian photographer Stefan Draschan spends hours hanging around museums looking for curious coincidences where visitors perfectly match t...

Puzzlewood: Tolkien's Inspiration For Middle Earth

Nov 6, 2017

The “The Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic novel of the same name were shot almost entirely in New Zealand,...

Newton's Apple Tree in Lincolnshire

Nov 6, 2017

The story of Sir Isaac Newton and the falling apple is one of the most famous anecdotes in science. The young Isaac Newton was sitting under...

Ise Jingu: The Japanese Shrine That’s Torn Down And Rebuilt Every 20 Years

Nov 3, 2017

The Ise Grand Shrine, also known as Ise Jingu, located in the city of Ise, in Japan, is one of Shinto's holiest and most important sites...

The Painted Monasteries of Romania

Nov 3, 2017

In northern Romania, in a region historically known as Bukovina, are a collection of eight Byzantine-era churches renowned for their beautif...

The Art of Well Dressing

Nov 2, 2017

Every year throughout summer many villages in Derbyshire and Staffordshire decorate their wells and water sources—a custom known as well dre...

The Udny Mort House

Nov 1, 2017

Much of what we know about the human anatomy comes from dissecting human cadavers. The practice goes back to classical antiquity. The Greeks...

Madam Coudray’s 18th Century Manikin For Midwife Trainees

Oct 31, 2017

This crude fabric doll of a small child emerging out of a fabric womb was one of the first life-sized obstetrical manikin used by Angélique ...

Sheela-Na-Gig: The Mysterious Medieval Carvings of Women Exhibitionists

Oct 30, 2017

The Church of St Mary and St David at Kilpeck in the English county of Herefordshire is famous for its Norman carvings of writhing snakes an...

The Rock Houses That Inspired Tolkien

Oct 28, 2017

In 1777, a certain Joseph Heely of Birmingham published a guide book to the three great West Midland gardens of the mid-18th century with a ...