Archives for Feature Articles
A FOLLY in TIME
Article by Tatum Taylor
Building Fragments on the Bluffs
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T THE EDGE OF THE SCARBOROUGH BLUFFS, where Toronto meets Lake Ontario, remnants of the city’s past rest in peace....
Maritime MEDIEVAL
Article by John Leroux
Building Fragments on the Bluffs
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ETWEEN 1841 AND 1859, Herbert Minton of Stoke-Upon-Trent, England, presented vast amounts of beautiful inlaid ceramic floor and wall tiles...
GEORGE STEPHEN
Article by Alexander Reford
A Client and His Commissions
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HEN WE THINK ABOUT ARCHITECTURE, we most often think about the building and the architect who designed it. Less often...
Natural History on Display: Victorian Insect Art
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Article by Suzanne Moase
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N 1831, THOMAS BARNETT opened his museum of curiosities and natural history to the viewing public in Niagara Falls. The Niagara Falls Museum,...
Arcs of Colour
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A stained glass window by Quebec artist Marcelle Ferron
Article by Rosalind Pepall
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HERE ARE MANY stained glass windows in the collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Gothic,...
The Tale of the Three-Bladed Propeller
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Article by Paul Balcaen
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HERE IS AN INSIGNIFICANT-LOOKING grey wooden propeller on a hangar wall at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada in Winnipeg.
It came off...
Documentary Calligraphy at Kings Landing
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Article by Darrell Butler
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CCORDING TO MR. WILLIAM GANONG, the collection donor, this is one of two pieces of calligraphy by George Bragg (1783-1859) in the Mary...
Symbol of the Realm
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Article by Michael Prokopow
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IVEN THAT EVERY HUMAN-MADE OBJECT is a text born of context, the challenge of getting at the meaning of a thing necessarily becomes...
Carving the City
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Article by Wayne Reeves
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HILE THREE-DIMENSIONAL depictions of buildings and towns date back to antiquity, terrain models (or raised-relief maps) became popular only from the 1890s...