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Madame de Pompadour As an Artist

Madame de Pompadour was the most influential mistress of Louis XV. Even though having influence over a king was no small deal, there is more to De...

Vithória Konzen Dill 18 September 2026

Rococo

How to Look Fabulous: Rococo Women Beauty Guide

How to look fabulous? That is the question! Let’s refer to the most splendid and opulent period of history: the 18th century. The Enlightenment era...

Kateryna Martynova 18 September 2026

Women Artists

Anne Vallayer-Coster: A Life of Still Life

The still-life genre often seems less interesting than other art forms, so perhaps it is unsurprising that 18th-century French painter Anne...

Catriona Miller 18 September 2026

Women Artists

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and Amazing Women in Her Portraits

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and the women in her portraits should be a reference for every art lover. The French painter—also known as Madame Le...

Pola Otterstein 18 September 2026

Rococo

Queen Marie Antoinette in 10 Portraits

Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France and Navarre before the French Revolution, is renowned for numerous portraits that depict her life.

Zuzanna Stańska 18 September 2026

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South American Art

Fernando Botero and His Remakes of Classic Masterpieces

I must tell you something in secret – I love Fernando Botero’s works. Many of his works were inspired by classic art. Or maybe...

Zuzanna Stańska, Aniela Rybak-Vaganay 17 September 2026

Surprising Art History

What Happens When a Lawyer Becomes a LEGO Artist?

Lego springs to mind as one of the key toys of many people’s childhoods. Whether building houses, spacecraft, or just stepping on that elusive...

Nadine Waldmann 17 September 2026

game of thrones art: Left: Alexandre Cabanel, Fallen Angel, 1847, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France. Detail. Right: Sansa Stark.  Theater & Cinema

7 Paintings That Inspired Game of Thrones

It has been a while since Game of Thrones ran its course. Are you planning to re-watch it anytime soon? Trying to escape our current bleak world, for...

Joanna Kaszubowska 17 September 2026

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Surprising Art History

Lowbrow Art, Subcultural Movement or Legitimate Art Generation?

Somewhere between the late 1960s and the 1970s, a new artistic movement emerged from the underground scene. At that time, it didn’t have any...

Errika Gerakiti 17 September 2026

Museum Stories

The Curious World of Old Medicine: 8 Pharmacy Museums to Explore

A pharmacy is a very weird kind of shop. It has your favorite skin creams and food supplements. They also carry medicines for the flu, blood...

Marija Canjuga 17 September 2026

Set of Jewelry from the Vulci tomb, ca. 500 BCE to 401 BCE (late Archaic period), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, United States. Ancient Art

All That Glitters: The Gold Jewelry of the Etruscans

The elusive Etruscans left behind a rich legacy of gold craftsmanship that was among the most advanced in the ancient Mediterranean world. While the...

Maya M. Tola 16 September 2026

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Pectoral with Isis, ca. 538 to 519 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA. Nubian gold Ancient Egypt

All The Glitters: Gold of Nubia

The ancient African civilization of Nubia thrived along the banks of the Nile, encompassing present-day Sudan and southern Egypt. Nubia gained renown...

Maya M. Tola 16 September 2026

Design

Turquoise: Art, Culture, and Myth of a Gemstone

The bright blue-green Turquoise has been valued and revered for centuries by all the cultures around the world that had access to it. Several...

Nadine Waldmann 16 September 2026

Fashion

Medusa Jewelry That Had the Power to Petrify

Since ancient times, jewelry hasn’t only been a fashion detail or simple ornament, but a status symbol with a variety of meanings. On it, among...

Ana Djoric 16 September 2026

Broad collar of Senebtisi, ca. 1850–1775 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. Ancient Egypt

All That Glitters: Gold Jewelry in Ancient Egypt

Personal ornaments were favored by ancient Egyptians from the Predynastic to the late Roman periods, and most of them wore some type of jewelry. The...

Maya M. Tola 16 September 2026

Art History 101

Heirs to Dada: 6 Avant-garde Art Movements Inspired by Dadaism

Dada was certainly the most virulent of European avant-garde art movements. Its members attacked not only artistic creation but society as a whole.

Amélie Pascutto 15 September 2026

Women Artists

Lady Dada? Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and the Revolution of Conceptual Art

When Doja Cat sparkled in 30,000 crimson Swarovski crystals at Paris Fashion Week in 2023, the American rapper walked down the red carpet literally a...

Kero Fichter 15 September 2026

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Artist Stories

Jean Cocteau—Prince of Parisian Bohème

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (1889–1963) was a prince of bohème. A significant figure in the European art of the 20th century, Cocteau...

Valeria Kumekina 15 September 2026

Dadaism

Listen to What Dada Is According to Jean Arp

Voices of Dada is part of a popular series of archival audio CDs exploring 20th-century avant-garde and modern art. The album features interviews and...

Zuzanna Stańska, Aniela Rybak-Vaganay 15 September 2026

Dadaism

4 Most Scandalous Artworks by Marcel Duchamp

In addition to Marcel Duchamp’s famous readymades, during his life he created less known works that were provocative and caused a scandal among the...

Caroline Galambosova 15 September 2026

Animals

The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau

Henri Rousseau was a French artist who painted in a Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), which was a...

Zuzanna Stańska 14 September 2026

Architecture

Ellora: 34 Caves Reveal Three Religions Side by Side in Ancient India

Carved into a nearly 1.2-mile stretch of basalt in Maharashtra, India, the Ellora Caves are an astonishing rock-cut architectural achievement and...

Maya M. Tola 14 September 2026

Herstory

The Heiress Who Became a Living Work of Art—and Lost It All

A woman who outraged and inspired people of her time, who was a symbol of the Belle Époque and a muse to her contemporary artists. She owned palaces...

Magda Michalska 14 September 2026

Artist Stories

10 Famous Artists You Wouldn’t Think Were Self-Taught

Think art school is the only path to greatness? Think again. These 10 artists defied convention through persistence, originality, and vision, without...

Wen Gu 14 September 2026

Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Artist Stories

Henri Rousseau in 10 Paintings: Like Nothing You’ve Seen Before

Henri Rousseau is one of the greatest self-taught artists in art history, known for his vivid depictions of subtropical landscapes. Discover the...

Marta Wiktoria Bryll 14 September 2026

Artist Stories

Let’s Ride a Tiger! Escape into the Tropics with Henri Rousseau

Let’s ride a tiger! Definitely not! We should never try to ride a tiger, and Henri Rousseau does not suggest it either! It would be horrible...

Sarah Mills 14 September 2026

Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: The Football Players by Henri Rousseau

Welcome to the bizarre world of Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), the quintessential naïve artist, and meet his masterpiece depicting oneiric, striped...

Anastasia Manioudaki 14 September 2026

Artist Stories

The 17th-Century Japanese Woman Who Broke Into a Male Art World

Not many of us have heard of Kiyohara Yukinobu, but we probably should have. She was a Japanese painter in the early Edo period (1603–1868) and one...

Candy Bedworth 14 September 2026

Caravaggio, Cardsharps, ca 1596-1597, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA. Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: The Cardsharps by Caravaggio

The Cardsharps is an early masterpiece of Baroque art by Caravaggio that explores the revolutionary theme of crooked card playing. Let’s delve...

James W Singer 13 September 2026

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