The Divine Sarah: Sarah Bernhardt, The First Artist Superstar
While we are all familiar with celebrity culture and can recognize all of the Kardashians by their silhouettes, the idea of ‘celebrity’ is not a...
Wendy Gray 24 March 2024
While we are all familiar with celebrity culture and can recognize all of the Kardashians by their silhouettes, the idea of ‘celebrity’ is not a...
Wendy Gray 24 March 2024
Theodore Christopher Marceau (1859-1922) was an American photographer who pioneered the creation of a national chain of photographic studios in the...
Zuzanna Stańska 22 March 2024
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was one of the most prominent women artists of the end of the 18th century in Paris. Despite misogynistic policies for...
Jimena Escoto 21 March 2024
Hermenegildo Bustos was one of Mexico’s most renowned painters of the 19th century. Despite the lack of Academic training, his portraits stood out...
Jimena Escoto 20 March 2024
“Epifaniusz Drowniak” is now a household name in Polish naïve art and, arguably, across Europe alongside painters such as Henri...
Katarzyna Waszak 20 March 2024
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was the only surviving child of King Henry VIII of England and his second wife Anne Boleyn. Being a girl was hard...
Sarah Mills 20 March 2024
Rembrandt van Rijn married Saskia van Uylenburgh in 1634. They were together for only eight years before she died after childbirth, probably from...
Catriona Miller 18 March 2024
Constance Mayer (1775-1821) was one of a generation of women artists who took advantage of the new freedoms offered by the French Revolution. She...
Catriona Miller 18 March 2024
A trailblazing French chemist and scholar, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier was at the cutting edge of scientific research during the Age of...
Natalia Iacobelli 16 March 2024
Recently Rijksmuseum announced an acquisition of a highly sought-after newly emerged work by a Dutch Golden Age artist, Gesina ter Borch. This...
Nicole Ganbold 15 March 2024
Woman with Stylus is an ancient Roman fresco unearthed in Pompeii nearly two millennia after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE. Various details...
Natalia Iacobelli 15 March 2024
Frans Hals, one of the most innovative and fascinating artists in Western art history, is making international headlines at the Rijksmuseum.
Nicole Ganbold 14 March 2024