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20th century
Barbara Hepworth: Sculptor of Archaic Wonders
July 24, 2021Barbara Hepworth’s 1973 bronze-cast sculpture Conversation with Magic Stones is mythic, mysterious, and interactive. Barbara Hepworth, born in 1903, was an English artist, famous for her modernist sculpture. Conversation with Magic Stones Made up of six...
Ancient Rome
The Portrait of Rome’s Decline: Bust of Decius
July 22, 2021The turmoil of Rome’s decline in the 3rd century enclosed the 21- month reign of Decius. His tenure as emperor was not exceptionally short for the period, plagued as it was by wars both foreign and...
Art Travels
When in Mexico: Mysterious and Beautiful Flower Crowned Nun Portraits
July 5, 2021Gambol into the lobby of most Mexican hotels, or visit any antique store in Mexico, and you’re bound to find a portrait of an 18th or 19th-century nun wearing a crown of flowers. Who is she?...
Art Nouveau
Gustav Klimt in the Spotlight: Four Famous Masterpieces
June 28, 2021Have you ever looked upon Gustav Klimt’s portrait of The Lady in Gold and wondered why she was so worshipped? What made the artist immortalize her with such reverence? Or why the couple in The Kiss...
19th Century
Elizabeth Thompson: The Most Disrespected Artist in Military History
June 19, 2021Elizabeth Thompson was born in 1846 in Switzerland, thirty-one years after the country began its now two-century-long policy of military neutrality. In 1922 she would die as one of the greatest battle painters to have ever...
dailyart
Tombs of Leonardo Bruni and Carlo Marsupini in the Florentine Santa Croce: Strikingly Similar or Substantially Different?
June 14, 2021In the 15th century, Florence underwent a cultural and artistic peak without parallel, architecture, painting, and sculpture were at their height. The list of outstanding sculptors who matured and created their artworks in Florence is almost...
20th century
Rosalyn Drexler: Wrestling Feminist in the Pop Art World
June 13, 2021Rosalyn Drexler is an American artist born in the Bronx, New York, in 1926. She attended the High School of Music and Art in New York City before marrying American painter, Sherman Drexler. She began making...
20th century
10 Masterpieces of 20th Century Pop Art You Should Know
June 12, 2021Dominating the 20th century with iconic imagery, Pop Art’s effects on the art world are still being felt today. Here are 10 of the most significant Pop Art masterpieces that will surely still be talked about...
Artists' Stories
Diego Rivera: The Controversial Story of Man at Crossroads
May 17, 2021At the suggestion of his mother, Nelson Rockefeller commissioned Diego Rivera, a passionate Mexican socialist artist, to paint the mural that was going to decorate the ground floor of the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. The original...
dailyart
Knights in Shining Armour: Funerary Art of Medieval England
May 15, 2021What do Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck have in common with a tiny village in Lincolnshire and the funerary art of medieval England? Say “Disney” and you get suspiciously close to “d’Isigny”. And there it is,...
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