20th century
Berthe Weill: The Unknown Gallerist of the Avant-Garde
Do you know the name of the first female modern art gallery...
Baroque
Nine Reasons to Smile with Frans Hals
Frans Hals (c. 1582–1666) was one of the Dutch Golden Age painters....
Video
The Nerdwriter: YouTube Channel for Art Lovers
October 21, 2020If you are a naturally curious person and above all an art lover, Nerdwriter is a complete channel to kill all curiosities and learn a lot. Nerdwriter releases weekly videos that “puts ideas to work”. With eight years...
History
Did You Know? Haarlem in the Dutch Golden Age
October 20, 2020The city of Haarlem in the Netherlands was one of the flourishing art centers of the 16th and 17th centuries. Today, you can walk the streets of the city and see that not much has changed. Architecturally, the...
History
The Art of Law: Legal Drama in Artworks
October 20, 2020Courtrooms are associated with a wide range of emotions, from hope to anguish, tension to the mundane. While legal drama has tremendous representation on television, it is not as prevalent a theme in traditional artworks, despite the infinite...
Baroque
15 Things You May Not Know About The Night Watch by Rembrandt
October 19, 2020The Night Watch painted by Rembrandt van Rijn is a colossal (363×437 cm) and most famous canvas created by the artist. It is one of the icons of Western art history. Painted in 1642, at the peak of the...
History
Two Men, Police Uniforms, and Some Duct Tape: The Biggest Art Heist in History After 30 Years of Active Investigations
October 19, 2020Two men, police uniforms and some duct tape; this is how Rick Abath and Randy Hestand, security men at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, found themselves tied up after midnight in the basement of the museum...
Women Artists
Roll up, Roll up, for the Greatest Show on Earth! Jeanne Mount and Her Circus Mosaics
October 18, 2020Artist Jeanne Mount designed a series of spectacular circus mosaics in 1969 that are as fresh and vibrant today as when they were first displayed on the famous Blackpool Tower. Let’s take a look. Come back with me...
Painting of the Week
Painting of the Week: Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
October 18, 2020The bejeweled woman from the mosaic, holding the measuring tool for the Roman foot, is identified by the restored Greek inscription as Ktisis. She is a figure personifying the act of generous donation or foundation. Ktisis, in Greek ktísis –...
Ancient Rome
Roman Floor Mosaics: Stories in Stone and Glass
October 17, 2020Floor mosaics are one of the most well-preserved and widespread types of Roman art. They were found throughout the Roman Empire from Britain to Mesopotamia. Mostly used in public buildings such as Roman baths and marketplaces, they were...
Ancient Rome
Ancient Bikini Girls from the Roman Mosaics
October 17, 2020If you have ever wondered when the history of the bikini began, it started exactly at the same time and place in history as philosophy, mathematics, and art: with the ancient! The Roman mosaics found in Sicily prove...
Women Artists
Elena Luksch-Makowsky: From St. Petersburg, through Vienna to Hamburg
October 16, 2020On the 24th of September, the Belvedere Museum in Vienna opened an in-sight exhibition dedicated to Elena Luksch-Makowsky, a Russian painter and sculptor. She was one of the central figures of the Vienna Secession. The exhibition is a...
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Just Weird
ALL Art In BoJack Horseman We Could Find Gathered In One Place (6th Season Update)
May 5, 2020We love it when pop culture adopts, uses, and remixes art history, especially when that mixture...
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
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...
Bodies And Erotic Art
All You Must Know About Japanese Erotic Art, Shunga (18+)
October 2, 2020Ukiyo-e pictures, pictures of the “floating world” are famous among everyone interested in art history. Everyone knows Hokusai’s...
Artists' Stories
4 Artists Who Suffered from Mental Illness (and How It Affected Their Art)
October 6, 2020The painter Vincent van Gogh is well-known for his artwork 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...
Bodies And Erotic Art
Greek Mythological Creatures that Combine Female Beauty and Beastly Ugliness
September 12, 2020Gods, goddesses, demigods, horrible monsters, and beasts of hybrid forms roam the world of Ancient Greek...
Artists' Stories
The Mystery of Vincent Van Gogh’s Death
March 30, 2017Vincent van Gogh’s death occurred in the early morning of 29 July 1890, in his room...
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...
21st century
The Story Of Damien Hirst’s Famous Shark
September 4, 2017This shark is considered the iconic work of British art in the 1990s, and has become...
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