A Polish scientist Ignacy Domeyko imprinted himself in historiography primarily as a founder of mineralogy in Chile. He was regarded as a reformer of the National Institute and held the position of as rector of the Universidad ...

Tunja is one of the more famous cities of the Kingdom of New Granada, especially in terms of the art of the colonial period. Churches, monasteries and grand mansions with magnificent, ornate stone facades were built ...

This paper presents European reception of a guinea-pig motif on the example of paintings from the 16th to 18th centuries. Interpretation of its significance in early Europe is interesting insofar as it concerns an animal ...

This article is devoted to the history of one of the most interesting architectural complexes located in Cusco at Plaza de las Nazarenas (formerly Plaza de Santa Clara La Vieja). The paper traces buildings’ history and ...

Cast iron was becoming increasingly popular in the mid-19th century in both construction and transmission design. The rich foundry traditions of the Końskie district, which belonged to the Old Polish Industrial Region, ...

The homeland of porcelain is China, where pottery began as early as the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) and was perfected during the Tang (618–906) and Song (960–1279) dynasties. In Europe, it began a few centuries later, ...

The text is the second part of the study on the construction works in the estate of one of the most important Lithuanian magnates of the first half of the 17th century, Krzysztof Radziwiłł (1585–1640), Vilnius Voivode and ...