Time for a change

After nearly 5 years online it's time for a change.
My old site "Travelling the World on Art Stamps" will not be continued (but will remain online for a little while before being taken down for good). It has reincarnated as "Art History on Stamps". The first beginning is available here
http://arthistory1.school.dk

You will recognize quite much from my old site, including the general style, but already now some new folders and a few new pages have been added, and more there is to come over the season.

I hope that art stamp collectors world wide will find this new compendium useful as a source of reference.

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Oohhhhh, Tracy! How nicely can you put it ...

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If you saw my current stock of art stamps ...

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I don't know about Romania and Hungary, but some time ago I saw a Danish "certificate of sending" franked with a HUGE Danish painting, and a killer cancel on it ...

And I have a thick bunch of Swedish postal matters (not covers) franked (no, plastered on both sides) with all sorts of Swedish art stamps, including Slania's engravings

That's why we are here, constantly "nagging" at each other

Good luck with the new project!

Actually, I don't see a big difference between the old (Traveling the World on Art Stamps = Traveling in Space and Time) and the new Art History on
Stamps (Traveling rather in Time, but of course geographically too?), but maybe it's only the future development that could allow me for understanding the fine difference.

As much as can remember, the Arthistory site isn't new (correct me if I'm wrong), and it isn't centered on History of Art either (yet?).

As for:

"One of the greatest frauds of modern times is the idea that art should be difficult to understand, and that a sign of sophistication and intelligence is understanding what is incomprehensible to the uninitiated. The result is a farce: those who wish to appear sophisticated pretend to see meaning where there is none. Art has a definite purpose: to show what people can and should be."

I have the impression that you are slowly approaching my point of view, those expressed on the page linked below.

No -- in that case I could easily spend 24 hours per day behind the computer! I do have other plans for the next 30 years

Only art history within visual arts and artists representative for the particular art styles. Maybe *very* general asides to music, photography, literature ...

By the way, I have noticed an increasing interest in art stamps, so I have also plenty to do with keeping pace with sales orders from my collections.

There is one big difference already now. No folder is country-specific, rather style-specific or person-specific.

You are corrected Earlier it was a modest part of my old site (ArtLexicon), now it will be an independent site.

How about the art style folders and the related artists? Of course future development, including
Etruscan and Byzantine art in the timeline might make it clearer to you.

This was quoted already on my old site's ArtLexicon, and is now slightly moderated. I am glad to see that, for once, we both have the same point of view