The ancient Egyptian goddess Isis was 'the mother of all gods,' worshipped all over the ancient world, from England to Afghanistan.| TheCollector
From the theatrical Art Deco to the strict minimalism of the Bauhaus, the Roaring Twenties were a truly exciting era for art and culture.| TheCollector
How does a pessimistic philosopher such as Arthur Schopenhauer approach the study of morality? How is it possible to establish what is right or wrong while assuming that the world is inherently bad?| TheCollector
Marx's influence on the politics of the 20th century is unparalleled, yet not many can claim to have actually read his writings. Discover 5 of his most important works.| TheCollector
Drawing and departing from scholars and peers, philosopher Gilles Deleuze embodied change and perseverance by honoring difference as a concept and materializing it through repetition.| TheCollector
The Four Virtues of Stoicism – wisdom, temperance, justice, courage – were an ethical system based on Socratic ideals in Imperial Rome.| TheCollector
Hard work is generally seen as virtuous, and those who work hard as morally praiseworthy. Conversely, idleness is seen as a vice, and the idle as deserving of blame. However, what if it isn’t the case? What if idleness is praiseworthy?| TheCollector
A collection of great stories that teach, inform, and inspire millions of readers. Exclusively authored by academics. Trusted by scholars & classrooms.| TheCollector
The color purple combines the cool shades of blue with the fiery hues of red, merging their contrasting symbolic and psychological qualities.| TheCollector
For 40 years, Berlin remained an ideological battleground between the Stasi and CIA. The West used jazz diplomacy and broadcasts, activists smuggled records, and Stasi informers infiltrated music scenes.| TheCollector
Four cardinal virtues form the lynchpin of Aristotle’s complex and profound ethical system: prudence, justice, temperance, and courage.| TheCollector
Developed in 10th-century China, gunpowder changed how we live, even though it was sometimes considered demonic. But modern guns don’t use gunpowder.| TheCollector
Everyone knows the male artists of the Vienna Secession, but this artistic collective also collaborated with a number of women artists. Read on to discover who they were.| TheCollector
For Vincent van Gogh, nature was a source of life and inspiration. But his abstract interpretations of tree roots and wheatfields would also define the way we perceive his death.| TheCollector
At the turn of the 20th century, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt formed a bridge between tradition and modernity with dazzling pattern and ornamentation.| TheCollector
Ernst Haeckel, a 19th-century zoologist and proponent of Darwinism developed evolutionary monism, a universalist philosophy that tried to solve the problem of a “mechanic-like” world and surprisingly influenced Viennese art.| TheCollector
While the traditional way of creating art has been disrupted, the digital era has made art accessible and free, allowing everyone to be creative.| TheCollector
During World War II, the Nazi regime looted hundreds of Jewish-owned art collections. Today, the victims’ heirs are still trying to recover the Nazi-looted art.| TheCollector
Why would someone destroy an artwork? Learn more about what motivates art vandalism, and more.| TheCollector
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian artist known for his symbolism and his patronage of Art Nouveau in Vienna. He would use actual gold leaf in his paintings| TheCollector
Gustav Klimt’s artworks are sensuous, and erotic, speaking of a world of opulence and leisure. Here are 10 of his best-known.| TheCollector
Russian-born American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel The Fountainhead holds the key to her philosophy of Objectivism. Rand emphasizes the significance of individualism over collectivism.| TheCollector
Erich Fromm was a scholar who fled Germany during the Fascist takeover. This experience gave him a whole new perspective on love.| TheCollector
Susanna is an artist passionate about generating concepts for creative writing pieces and short films. During this process, she loves to research topics related to art history and philosophy to inform her ideas. She graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in Interdisciplinary Arts and lives in Southern California.| TheCollector
Adam Smith’s best known work effectively founded the discipline of economics on theories concerning the origins of money and markets. Do those theories stand up to scrutiny?| TheCollector
An essential look into the life, work and philosophical transitions of the influential Austrian thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein.| TheCollector
In 2021, an AI expert re-colorized a series of paintings by Gustav Klimt. The result raised concerns about the use of AI in art history.| TheCollector
20th-century writer and philosopher Ayn Rand was known for her philosophy of Objectivism and her fictional novels. Atlas Shrugged is her most well-known book - what does it say?| TheCollector
Hegel’s writings had a strong influence on Karl Marx’s philosophy. A closer look at the notions shared by Hegel and Marx, particularly that of dialectics, reveals their complex underlying connection.| TheCollector
The philosopher John Searle argues that AI can only simulate cognition but not think through his famous “Chinese room argument”.| TheCollector
What are the main ideas behind anarcho-capitalism, and how does it differ from more traditional forms of anarchism?| TheCollector
The sculptor and installation artist Anish Kapoor bought exclusive artistic rights to the world’s blackest black in 2016, resulting in widespread controversy and a longstanding feud with Stuart Semple.| TheCollector