Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Qiu Ying was born around 1494 AD to a peasant family in Taicang and likely learned…
Katsushika Hokusai | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context In the beginning there was the wave. The towering blue-and-white tsunami in the foreground of the…
Jang Seung-Eop | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Even as a civilization collapses and dynasties crumble, great artists still produce great art albeit, often…
Hieronymus Bosch | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Since Hieronymus Bosch started daubing paint on boards, his Medieval visions of heaven and hell have…
Gustav Klimt | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Gustav Klimt was born in July 1862 AD on the outskirts of Vienna in the long…
El Greco | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context El Greco once wrote, “I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.” Born Domenikos…
Edmonia Lewis | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Born around 1844 AD of an Afro-Haitian father and mostly-Ojibwa mother, not much is known about…
Donatello | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Donato di Niccolo di Betta Bardi was born in Florence around 1386 AD and died there…
Claude Monet | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Impressionist paintings are known for their use of color and distinct brushstrokes that lend a sense…
Angelica Kauffman | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Her work and life were summed up by the German Johann von Goethe, an acquaintance, thus:…