Stories By Kate Wojtczak
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Cinema
The Innocents of Florence. A New Documentary by Davide Battistella
May 17, 2019A 600-year-old painting leads two art conservators in Florence on a journey that sheds light on the story of the hundreds of thousands of children who were abandoned, and the women who saved them. The Innocents of...
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19th Century
6 Rooms from Famous Paintings Brought to Real Life
April 29, 2019Paintings of historical interiors are fascinating hybrid images – midway between the work of a great artist’s imagination and a document of the past. Thanks to the project Atelier Décor held by HomeAdvisor we can learn...
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Painting of the Week
Paul Cézanne, The Bathers
January 20, 2019When little Paul was born on 19th January 1839 nobody could expect that he will revolutionize painting with developing a unique style and influence a whole generation of artists. Let’s have a look at one of...
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dailyart
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Goethe in the Roman Campagna
January 13, 2019Last week the Städel Museum in Frankfurt posted on Instagram a painting from their collection with a funny quote: “Having a bad day? Always remember: someone painted a life-sized portrait of Goethe with two left feet.” The someone...
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Middle Ages
Giotto di Bondone, Adoration of the Magi
January 6, 2019January 6 in the Christian calendar is a day devoted to the Magi. According to the Bible, Three Wise Men from the East come to Bethlehem to visit Baby Jesus, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. There are probably thousands of...
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Painting of the Week
Jacopo Tintoretto, Marriage at Cana
December 30, 2018Because it’s the New Year’s Eve tomorrow and many of you are going to have fun I’ve chosen for our painting of the week a work depicting a party. It’s not a typical party, it’s a...
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Painting of the Week
Cuno Amiet, Snowy Landscape (Deep Winter)
December 23, 2018These are the shortest days of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s dark and cold outside but there are two things which brighten the night – Christmas lights and snow, and this week’s painting is...
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Painting of the Week
Paul Klee, Fish Magic
December 16, 2018When I was a child, my parents bought a poster showing a reproduction of a warmly-colored painting with two small camels and a donkey lost in a composition of abstract rectangles. It turned out to be Paul...
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Painting of the Week
Adolph Menzel, The Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclopes)
December 9, 2018The 19th century, the age of steel and steam, witnessed not only the developments of the industry but also of the new themes in painting. Now, simple workers found their place next to mythological heroes and...
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Museums And Exhibitions
Wanderlust Exhibition – Travel Desire Encapsulated in Paintings
September 13, 2018It is the last chance to see Wanderlust. From Caspar David Friedrich to Auguste Renoir – an exhibition on travel desire in the Old National Gallery in Berlin. If you happen to be in the German...
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