Zuzanna Stanska

Art Historian, huge fan of Giorgione and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Founder and CEO of DailyArtMagazine.com and DailyArt mobile app. But to be honest, her greatest accomplishment is being the owner of Pimpek the Cat.

Stories By Zuzanna Stanska

Art History 101

10 Things You Need To Know About Jan Van Eyck

By Zuzanna StanskaJanuary 18, 2020

Jan van Eyck was a Flemish painter active in Bruges who was born in 1390 and died in 1441. He was one of the innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of...
History

The Story of the Lost Raphael’s Portrait of a Young Man

By Zuzanna StanskaDecember 19, 2019

Have you seen this painting? It is missing. Since 1945. On the day of reopening the Princes Czartoryski Museum, let’s explore the story of one of the most important paintings to have gone missing during World...
20th century

David Wojnarowicz: Love and Rage in the Time of Cholera

By Zuzanna StanskaDecember 4, 2019

Sex, spirituality, love, and loss – for the artist, writer, and activist David Wojnarowicz these were the main subjects of art which he created from the 1970s to the early 1990s when he died of AIDS....
Impressionism

Painting of the Week: Claude Monet, Meules

By Zuzanna StanskaOctober 6, 2019

Claude Monet, the master of Impressionism, loved to paint in series. The one with haystacks (in French called meules) is his most known one, as well the first he exhibited. Fifteen of the paintings, presenting the...
Impressionism

Claude Monet and Saint Lazare Train Station

By Zuzanna StanskaAugust 9, 2019

Between 1853 and 1870 Paris has been renovated and modernized by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann. This prefect of the Seine Department of France was chosen by Emperor Napoleon III to carry out a...
Baroque

15 Things You May Not Know About The Night Watch by Rembrandt

By Zuzanna StanskaJuly 8, 2019

The 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...
featured

Painting of the Week: Joaquín Sorolla, Capturing the Moment

By Zuzanna StanskaJune 30, 2019

The Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla spent most of his summers with his family in French Biarritz, 35 kilometres from the border with Spain. Sorolla was a master of capturing the moment – here, in the work entitled Capturing...
Abstraction

People, Subways and Mystery – Early Rothko’s Paintings Will Surprise You

By Zuzanna StanskaMay 13, 2019

There is no doubt that when we think of Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970), we see his large, abstract canvases, which were representations of human feelings and the human drama. They were painted from 1950 to 1970...
Expressionism

Painting of the Week: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden

By Zuzanna StanskaMay 5, 2019

The swirling crowds and electric lights of the modern city. This is the subject of today’s painting of the week, created by one of the greatest German Expressionists, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kirchner was a member of...
Painting of the Week

Painting of the Week: Raphael, Transfiguration

By Zuzanna StanskaApril 21, 2019

The Transfiguration was the last painting created by Raphael. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, the later Pope Clement VII (1523–1534) and conceived as an altarpiece for the Narbonne Cathedral in France, Raphael worked on it...