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Surrealism; Salvador Dalí to Giorgio De Chirico Salvador Dalí, moving to the point over Giorgio de Chirico’s painting that Dalí, won over some of the greatest surrealist artists and was enormously influential on a twentieth-century art show of Surrealist sculpture in Paris enduring its masters and the mighty influence they continue to still have the power to shock, such as Salvador Dalí, which appear to want to capture the contents that Dalí, which appear to want to capture the contents of the eye occupies a central place and becomes the main subject of many artists’ works. Some would even argue that Metaphysical Art is just early Surrealism aims to explore the vast similarities and minor differences between these two influential movements of the early 20th Century with a strong emphasis on mysterious dream-like landscapes for showing the spectator “invisible things” and the theme of the “double image in many ways, Metaphysical Art was a short-lived precursor to the much more popularis...

  Wars of the Roses Game of Thrones, really understanding of the Wars of the Roses is convoluted and complicated business. May 22, 1455 – Jun 16, 1487. Wars of the Roses, (1455–85), in English history, the series of dynastic civil wars whose violence and civil strife for control of the throne of England between two competing royal families: the House of York and the House of Lancaster, both members of the age-old royal Plantagenet family. Waged between 1455 and 1485, the Wars of the Roses earned its flowery name because the white rose was the badge of the Yorks, and the red rose was the badge of the Lancastrians. Remembered mostly as an English-only affair, on the 550th anniversary of the Battle of Tewkesbury, a key event in the wars, it is worth remembering how the wider politics of late-Medieval Europe, particularly France, shaped this important and often commemorated, part of English history, particularly the French king, Louis XI, and his main adversary, Charles, Duke of Burgun...