Portal:Visual arts/Did you know/Archive/5

...that chocolate box art (pictured) started in the late 19th century as box decorations, though the term 'chocolate box' is now used pejoratively to describe sentimental pictures?
...that the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut has architectural influences ranging from Byzantine to Romanesque architecture?
...that Polish painter and critic Józef Czapski was twice sent to the Soviet Union to find missing Polish officers who had been executed by the Soviets?
...that Kiev's Museum of Western and Oriental Art houses the largest collection of foreign art in Ukraine?
...that prominent Russian sculptor Fyodor Kamensky worked as a farmer in Florida?