Sculpting medium traced back to "banquet art", a tradition most associated with the Renaissance and Baroque periods
Caroline S. Brooks
American sculptor who exhibited her butter sculptures in galleries and exhibitions by using ice to keep them from melting
Made her first butter sculpture in 1867 as a way to promote the product
Did not use moulds, utilised traditional tools including a butter paddle, broomstraw, and a "camel's-hairpencil"
ErikaIrisSimmons
Imaginative painter and sculptor who focuses on recycling found materials and creating them into something unique and amusing
DominiqueBlain'sMissa
100 pair of army boots suspended on nylon strings arranged in a square grid, with the right-foot boots suggesting the synchronised movement of military marching
CaveartinNorthAmerica
Motifs depict human forms and animals, some of the largest known cave images
Dated to 133–433AD
Revealed through photogrammetry, in which thousands of overlapping photographs are taken and digitally combined in 3D
Sulawesicaveart
Oldest painting in the world, a hand stencil dating to at least 37,900 BCE
Also contains a fragmented painting of a pig-deer or babirusa, the second oldest figurative painting ever found and the oldest Asian art of the Paleolithic
CharlesDarwin'sfinches
Birds Darwin collected on the Galapagos Islands that were instrumental in the formation of his theory of evolution and ideas on natural selection
Lascauxcavepaintings
Discovered by four teenagers in 1940, one of the world's best examples of prehistoric art
The French government has built an exact replica of the paintings next to the originals, which are closed to the public to protect the artwork
EiffelTowerreplicas
Mini or baby versions of the iconic Paris landmark, found in various cities around the world
Virtual Pompeii
Digital re-creation of a house in ancient Pompeii, used as an educational tool in history classes at Gonzaga University
Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor of the ÉcoledeParis who worked mainly in France, known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures