This is unfortunately very true for many of us, international staff. Of course, everybody knows the art and history of his or her country of origin, and anyone who is interested in art, definitely knows the names of epoch-making artists: such as Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci… or major trends such as the Renaissance and [...]
EVELINA RIOUKHINA, UNECE A sensational discovery took place slightly more than 150 years ago on the shores of the Lake of Zürich. Low water levels in the winter of 1854 prompted the commune of Meilen to begin construction of a harbour on the shore of Lake Zürich. Embedded in the mud were a number of [...]
“Swiss art is like Swiss food, which at its best is excellent but has many of the culinary characteristics borrowed (and never returned) from neighbours : French, German, Italian. Its art and artists are similarly cosmopolitan. Was Hans Holbein the Younger Swiss or German or English for that matter ? Born in Augsburg, in [...]
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