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Masterpiece Story: Anguish by August Friedrich Schenck

Surrounded by menacing crows, a mother sheep wails in anguish as her lifeless young lamb rests on a snowy bed. This scene, painted by August...

Montaine Dumont 20 September 2026

Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler by Edwin Landseer

Painted when Edwin Landseer was just 18, Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler is a powerful tribute to the selfless devotion of rescue...

Theodore Carter 20 September 2026

Eugène Delacroix, The Barque of Dante, 1822, The Louvre, Paris, France Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: The Barque of Dante by Eugène Delacroix

Welcome to Hell—tonight, our guide will be Virgil, Dante, and of course Eugène Delacroix. The Barque of Dante, the first major painting by French...

Anastasia Manioudaki 20 September 2026

Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth by John Singer Sargent

On December 29th, 1888, John Singer Sargent went to the Lyceum Theatre in London to watch the premiere of Shakespeare’s Macbeth starring Henry...

Catriona Miller 20 September 2026

Romanticism

Masterpiece Story: The Disasters of War Series by Francisco Goya

Francisco Goya (1746-1828) is considered to be the founder of the national genre in Spain. He was talented in many areas: portraits, historical...

Elizaveta Ermakova 20 September 2026

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QUIZ: Famous Art Couples

Zuzanna Stańska 19 September 2026

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Jewish Artists Quiz: Guess Who Created These Artworks

Kate Wojtczak 19 September 2026

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QUIZ Hats in Art Part 2—Whose Hat Is That?

Kate Wojtczak 19 September 2026

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QUIZ: Art and Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

Theodore Carter 19 September 2026

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QUIZ: Do You Know These 10 Abstract Expressionist Paintings?

Tom Anderson 19 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

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Women Artists

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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