Stories By Zuzanna Stanska
Baroque
15 Things You May Not Know About The Night Watch by Rembrandt
October 19, 2020The 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 peak...
Ancient
Painting of the Week: Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
October 18, 2020The bejeweled woman from the mosaic, holding the measuring tool for the Roman foot, is identified by the restored Greek inscription as Ktisis. She is a figure personifying the act of generous donation or foundation. Ktisis,...
Bodies And Erotic Art
All You Must Know About Japanese Erotic Art, Shunga (18+)
October 2, 2020Ukiyo-e pictures, pictures of the “floating world” are famous among everyone interested in art history. Everyone knows Hokusai’s The Great Wave of Kanagawa. Ukiyo-e also became very popular among artists from the second half of the 19th century....
Ancient
Erotic Art in Pompeii and Herculaneum (NSFW!)
September 30, 2020Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum is a phenomenon often omitted from textbooks about ancient history. These famous Roman cities destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE were discovered with preserved buildings and...
19th Century
Fifty Shades of Dr. Pozzi
September 25, 2020There he is, in a portrait painted by John Singer Sargent – Dr. Pozzi, a dandy, a gynecologist, and a notorious womanizer. An extremely handsome man, who, if he had lived during the twentieth century, would...
Museums And Exhibitions
5 Reasons to Visit the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands
September 4, 2020Imagine, you are in a forest. In the middle of this forest there is a museum with a garden full of sculptures. Both the museum and the garden are filled with the most amazing artistic masterpieces....
Painting of the Week
Painting of the Week: Leonardo da Vinci, The Lady with an Ermine
August 23, 2020One of the greatest masterpieces of Western art, The Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci, presents Cecilia Gallerani (ca. 1473–1536). Young, beautiful and talented, especially in the areas of music and literature, she entered...
Special Occasion And News
It’s DailyArt App’s 8th Birthday – Here Are The 10 Most Liked Paintings We Presented in 2020
August 22, 2020Today is a special date. Exactly 8 years ago, in 2012, everything began for us with the launch of the DailyArt mobile app. It is a very simple app – every day it presents one piece...
Nature
The Fantasy World of Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Portraits
August 15, 2020Giuseppe Arcimboldo was the King of Mannerism. If you see a human portrait made of plants, vegetables, books, animals and generally speaking, stuff – you can be sure it’s Arcimboldo. These portraits were an expression of a...
Museums And Exhibitions
10 National Museum in Warsaw Highlights You Need to Know
August 10, 2020The National Museum in Warsaw is one of the most important museums in Poland. It also has an amazing collection of art – which obviously includes a collection of Polish art. As Polish art may not...
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Arenig School. Wild Bohemians and Welsh Mountains
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