Stories By Zuzanna Stanska
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Everything You Must Know About All Michelangelo’s Pietàs
September 14, 2021I guess everyone knows Michelangelo’s Pietà from St. Peter Basilica in the Vatican. But did you know, it is not the only sculpture of this subject created by the artist? Here we present all Pietàs created...
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5 Books About Famous Artists You Need to Read This Autumn
September 6, 2021September has come. Which means that the long dark evenings are upon us. It is not certain if we will be able to visit museums and galleries but there is something we definitely can do, and...
19th Century
9 Facts About Caspar David Friedrich You Should Know
September 5, 2021Caspar David Friedrich, one of the most important German artist of his generation, was born on this day in 1774. He is mostly known for his allegorical landscapes with contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists,...
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10 Most Famous Works of Caspar David Friedrich
August 31, 2021Caspar David Friedrich’s works changed the face of landscape painting with his intense and emotional focus on nature, and became a key member of Romanticism. His works are easily recognizable and and often cited by popular...
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Japan’s Greatest Masterpiece: (Thirty) Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai
August 25, 2021Everyone knows The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the print created by the Japanese Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai. But not everyone knows that The Great Wave comes from a series of 46 prints, depicting the views of Mount Fuji from different...
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It’s DailyArt App’s Ninth Birthday – Here Are the 10 Most Liked Paintings of the Year
August 22, 2021It’s DailyArt App’s birthday! Well, it is hard to believe but nine years ago, in 2012, everything started for us with launching the DailyArt mobile app. Since then, every single day in the app we present one...
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Theodore Marceau – The Genius Pioneer of Photographic Studios
August 21, 2021Theodore Christopher Marceau (1859-1922) was an American photographer who pioneered the creation of a national chain of photographic studios in the United States in the 1880s. He founded “Marceau Studios” in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston and...
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See Rare Photographs Taken by Edgar Degas
August 19, 2021Today is World Photography Day. On this day, August 19th, in 1839 the French government bought the patent for the daguerreotype and released it “free to the world.” On this special occasion, we have prepared a...
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The True Star of Early Photography: Virginia Oldoini
August 17, 2021Virginia Elisabetta Luisa Antonietta Teresa Maria Oldoini- in short, Countess of Castiglione- was a real celebrity of her times. I imagine that in our times she would be someone as famous as Kim K., or at least...
Art History 101
A Small Guide to Still Life Symbols
August 13, 2021You may think that all those marvelous Dutch still lifes from the 16th and 17th centuries were just some random sets of fruits, vegetables, and skulls. But guess what, they all had their hidden meaning! The...
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Sisterhood in Art: Portraying Sisters
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Living in the Shadow – Marie and Peder Severin Krøyer
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Her Life and Her Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner
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Robert S. Duncanson: African-American Painter in the Spotlight
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Painting of the Week: Sea Watchers by Edward Hopper
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