Portal:Visual arts/Did you know/Archive/5

11 March 2007

 * ...that chocolate box art (pictured) started in the late 19th century as box decorations, though the term 'chocolate box' is now used pejoratively to describe sentimental pictures?
 * ...that the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut has architectural influences ranging from Byzantine to Romanesque architecture?
 * ...that Polish painter and critic Józef Czapski was twice sent to the Soviet Union to find missing Polish officers who had been executed by the Soviets?
 * ...that Kiev's Museum of Western and Oriental Art houses the largest collection of foreign art in Ukraine?
 * ...that prominent Russian sculptor Fyodor Kamensky worked as a farmer in Florida?