Renaissance
Da Vinci’s Female Representation
The life and work of Leonardo da Vinci have been dissected and...
Renaissance
The enfant terrible of Renaissance Italian Art – 500 years of Tintoretto in Venice
Tintoretto, the enfant terrible of Renaissance Italian Art has now his moment....
NYC Art Critic
The Majestic Paintings of Eugène Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
November 12, 2018The rooms were dimly lit and majestic, and the paintings of Eugène Delacroix were larger than life. The Metropolitan Museum presented these paintings in this environment, on the heels of its exhibition of Delacroix’s drawings. That exhibition is...
Special Occasion & News
Remembrance Day Poppies in Painting
November 11, 2018Remembrance Day is a memorial remembering all the soldiers who died in the First World War. It was inaugurated by King George V in 1919 on November, 11, a date of signing the 1918 armistice. In the UK it is...
Painting of the Week
George Henry Boughton, Pilgrims Going to Church
November 10, 2018This week’s painting is Pilgrims Going to Church by George Henry Boughton (1833-1905). Even though Boughton grew up in America, he was born in England and spent most of his career working in England. However, he became well known for...
Museums & Exhibitions
A floating world of Claude Monet
November 9, 2018One of my greatest surprises of 2018 is Albertina’s monographic exhibition of Claude Monet. My astonishment was caused only by my bias – it’s obvious that Albertina usually organizes fantastic exhibitions, but Monet in Vienna? It didn’t ring...
Museums & Exhibitions
Crash Course in Impressionism – Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cézanne
November 8, 2018The Courtauld Gallery will remain closed for a while, as it is being transformed. But this does not mean we cannot see the Impressionist masterpieces from their collection. The National Gallery opened an exhibition that allows us to...
Museums & Exhibitions
Osvaldo Licini’s Rebel Angels and Sheer Folly
November 7, 2018Let Sheer Folly Sweep Me Away is the name of a new retrospective in Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice dedicated to a Modernist Italian artist Osvaldo Licini (1894–1958). Open until January 14, 2019, it offers a spiritual and mystical...
Sculpture
Eerie, Haunting and Below the Sea: DeCaires Taylor’s Underwater Museums
November 6, 2018In 2006, British artist Jason deCaires Taylor installed the first undersea sculpture park in the Caribbean. Since that time he created several other sites including ones at Cancun, Mexico, the banks of the Thames in London and the...
Seasons
Harvest Home. Five Most Beautiful Depictions of Harvest in Art
November 5, 2018The leaves are falling here in Wales. The last of the fruit and veg is being taken in, and the nights are getting darker. In the pagan calendar, both Autumn Equinox and Samhain have passed. This is the...
Painting of the Week
Władysław Ślewiński, Woman Combing her Hair
November 4, 2018Władysław Ślewiński was a leading artist of the Young Poland movement and one of the first Polish artists who went to Paris. It was unusual since most of the Polish artists back then rater went to Munich. But...
Art Travels
What I Learned About Fabergé Easter Eggs While on Vacation
November 3, 2018During my recent vacation, I got an unexpected treat – the opportunity to see two amazing collections of Fabergé Easter eggs in two days. One collection was at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, and...
Cinema
ALL Art In BoJack Horseman We Could Find Gathered In One Place (5th Season Update)
September 13, 2018We love it when pop culture is adopting, using, and remixing art history, and especially when...
Ancient Greece
Six Ancient Greek Sculptures Everyone Should Know
October 25, 2016Greek art and sculpture has had a profound effect for art throughout the ages. Many of...
20th century
Pablo Picasso And His Women
November 28, 2017Pablo Picasso perhaps the most influential and recognizable painter of the 20th century, is well known...
Bodies & Erotic Art
All You Must Know About Japanese Erotic Art, Shunga (18+)
February 16, 2017“Ukiyo-e” pictures, pictures of the “floating world.” are famous among everyone interested in art history. Everyone knows Hokusai’s...
Mr. Bacchus’ Tours
Through the eyes of Claude Monet
September 7, 2018The eyes of an artist put at the service of art can reveal to us an...
Artists' Stories
4 Artists Who Suffered Mental Illness (And How It Affected Their Art)
April 4, 2018The painter Vincent Van Gogh is well-known for his artworks and for a particular aspect of...
20th century
Frida Kahlo And The Symbolism In Her Art
August 8, 2017Frida Kahlo who lived during the first half of the 20th century changed the art history...
Painting of the Week
The Story of Vincent van Gogh’s Bedroom And Its Three Versions
February 24, 2018The Bedroom are among the most famous paintings of Vincent van Gogh. Why “are”? There are three...
Art History 101
10 Most Scandalous Nudes in Art (NSFW)
September 21, 2017We’re here to let you in on a pretty widely known secret about art history: it...
Ancient Greece
Greek Mythological Creatures That Combine Female Beauty And Beastly Ugliness
December 8, 2017Gods, goddesses, demigods, horrible monsters and beasts of hybrid forms roam the world of Ancient Greek...
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