Portal:Visual arts/Did you know/Archive

Suggestions
This is an area to leave suggestions for the "Did you know" section on the Portal:Visual arts. Eligible articles may only be up to 20 days old, or significantly expanded in the last 20 days.

List new suggestions at the bottom of this page. See Template talk:Did you know for examples of proper format. If there's a suitable image, place it after the suggestion.

Remember:
 * Proposed articles should be over 1,500 characters (ignoring infoboxes, categories, references) cite sources (these sources should be properly labelled, that is, not under an "External links" header), and be no more than 15 days old (unless it was under 1,500 characters or marked as a stub, and has been expanded by at least an additional 1,500 characters), and should not be marked as stubs. Articles with good references and cites are preferred to those without.
 * Suggested facts should be:
 * Interesting to draw in a variety of readers around the world.
 * Short and pithy (under about 200 characters).
 * Neutral.


 * Definite facts, mentioned in the article.
 * Suggested pictures should be:
 * Suitably freely (PD, GFDL, CC etc) licensed (NOT fair use) as the main page by policy can only have freely licensed pictures.
 * Attractive and interesting, even at a very small (100px wide) resolution
 * In the article already
 * Relevant to the article
 * Please check back for comments on your nomination. Your entry may miss out if you don't respond to reasonable objections.

Suggestions here:
 * ...that one of the first art galleries to exhibit photographs as fine art was the Terrain Gallery in NYC?
 * ...that the Russian painter Grigory Gagarin was also a military leader and a diplomat in Paris, Rome, and Istanbul?
 * ...that the 1991 Spanish film Amantes shocked audiences due to the frankness of its sex scenes?
 * ...that the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon, is the third largest museum in the state - and Yahoo! Travel's tenth best thing to do in Salem?
 * ...the Huguenot Hubert Le Sueur cast the giant equestrian sculpture of Charles I in Charing Cross, London in 1633?
 * ...that the opening sequence to the 1983 Thai film, Gunman was shot by the director, Chatrichalerm Yukol, while riding on the back of a motorcycle?
 * ...that according to the controversial Hockney-Falco thesis, the rise of realism in Renaissance art, such as Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, was largely due to the use of curved mirrors and other optical aids?
 * ...that the 1957 film La Anam in 1996 was selected as one of the best Egyptian films in history by the Egyptian Film association?
 * ...that Danish painter Carl-Henning Pedersen was known as the "Scandinavian Chagall"?
 * ...that the Fenari Isa Mosque (pictured) in Istanbul represents one of the first examples of edifices with a quincuncial plan in Byzantine architecture?
 * ...that Fyodor Schechtel, the architect of Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal in Moscow, Russia, was expelled from his classes at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1878 for "bad attendance"?
 * ...that the Russian architect Alexander Zelenko was one of the authors of the linear city urban concept?