Masterpiece Story: Michelangelo’s Bacchus
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known as Michelangelo, is undoubtedly among the world’s most treasured artists. His connection to...
Maya Tola 7 December 2021
Book Review: The Artist and the Eternal City by Loyd Grossman
Can an artist single-handedly impact an entire city? Considering that the city in question is Rome, probably not. But add to the mix an influential...
Joanna Kaszubowska 7 December 2021
Masterpiece Story: Cupid & Psyche by Antonio Canova
A true gem of virtuosity, Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss is a marble scupture made between 1787 and 1793 by Antonio Canova. The sculptor...
Montaine Dumont 7 December 2021
Bernini VS Borromini – The Greatest ‘Chisel Off’ In Art History
‘Bernini VS Borromini’ could be the main headline on today’s newspaper – a lawsuit, stirring debate, or even political elections.
Giordana Goretti 7 December 2021
Everything You Must Know about All Michelangelo’s Pietàs
I guess everyone knows Michelangelo’s Pietà from St. Peter Basilica in the Vatican. But did you know, it is not the only sculpture of this...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 December 2021
Women of the Dutch Golden Age
The art produced during the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age is known for its beautiful genre scenes, landscapes, and still lifes. But the...
Lauren Kraut 6 December 2021
David Hockney at Bozar, Brussels
This year, and for the first time since 1992, David Hockney is back in Brussels. A major retrospective of one of the most famous painters alive. The...
Guest Profile 6 December 2021
The Man, the Myth, the Legend: Thomas Nast’s Santa Claus
Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, Old St. Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Papa Noel, Weihnachtsmann. Whatever your culture is, he is a man of many...
Rachel Witte 6 December 2021
Vintage Claus Is Coming to Town
Today is Saint Nicholas Day, a holiday children across the world love because they get little treats if they are good (look up the Dutch version of...
Magda Michalska 6 December 2021
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Haddon Sundblom: The Artist Behind the Coca-Cola Santa Claus
Various illustrated depictions of the old St. Nicholas, or Bishop of Myra, have existed for centuries, bringing to life his story. Yet, in the end,...
Maria Frazzoni 6 December 2021
7 Amazing Chinese Museums
While China is still generally closed to international travel, we can always virtually explore the great museums it has to offer. China has hundreds...
Joanna Kaszubowska 6 December 2021
Ed Wheeler’s Santa Classics: Santa Claus and Masterpieces
Photographer Ed Wheeler has been dressing up as Santa Claus for years and posing in hilarious compositions. He started over 20 years ago with...
Zuzanna Stańska 6 December 2021
Queen Marie Antoinette in Portraits
Marie Antoinette was the last Queen of France and Navarre before the French Revolution, she is known from many portraits. However, during the...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 May 2021
Tōkyō Thrift – Japonisme and the Japanese Bauhaus
The historical narrative of Modernism is overwhelmingly western. However, the history of the movement is, in reality, one of constant diffusion...
Geoffrey Bunting 29 August 2021
A Dutch Mystery: Jacobus Vrel
Jacobus Vrel is a ghostly figure in art history because, up to this moment, there is almost no official data about him. No record of his existence...
Irina Diana Calu 11 November 2021
When Romanticism Meets Eruptions: Volcanoes in Paintings
Active volcanoes are great places to visit, but the danger of a potential eruption is always there. When some of them erupted with artists as...
Maia Heguiaphal 13 April 2020
5 Women Who Changed the 20th Century Interior Design
Originally I wanted to write about ten women interior designers, it seemed simple enough. But when I started my research the five women you’ll meet...
Joanna Kaszubowska 29 August 2020
Where Is Van Gogh’s Biggest Art Collection Outside of Amsterdam? In the Kröller-Müller Museum!
The Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, is home to the second largest collection of works by Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) in the world;...
Rachel Witte 22 September 2020
5 Greatest Baroque Painters and Their Works
Peter Paul Rubens, Caravaggio, Diego Velázquez, Rembrandt van Rijn and Nicolas Poussin – these are the five biggest names of the Baroque Period, a...
Pola Otterstein 22 October 2021
Salvador Dali, The Burning Giraffe
The Burning Giraffe is one of Salvador Dalí's most famous paintings. It was created in 1937, when the artist, at the time the most famous...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 April 2018
See Rare Photographs Taken by Edgar Degas
Today is World Photography Day. On this day, August 19th, in 1839 the French government bought the patent for the daguerreotype and released it...
Zuzanna Stańska 19 August 2021
How Galileo Galilei Changed the Moon Forever
While our old pal, Moon, was always shining above us; it wasn’t always obvious how does it really look like. For a long time, this astronomical...
Marta Wiktoria Bryll 24 September 2021
René Lalique, The Master Jeweler of Art Nouveau
René Lalique (1860-1945) was a French jeweler and one of Art Nouveau’s most renowned craftsmen. Trained in Paris and London, Lalique was unusual...
Europeana 10 November 2021
4 Artists Who Suffered from Mental Illness (and How It Affected Their Art)
The painter Vincent van Gogh is well-known for his artwork and for a particular aspect of his personal life: the post-impressionist spent some time...
Rute Ferreira 6 October 2020
