Stories By Zuzanna Stanska
Baroque
15 Things You May Not Know About The Night Watch by Rembrandt
July 8, 2019The 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...
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Painting of the Week: Joaquín Sorolla, Capturing the Moment
June 30, 2019The 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
May 13, 2019There 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
May 5, 2019The 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
April 21, 2019The 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...
Painting of the Week
Painting of the Week: Leonardo da Vinci, The Lady with an Ermine
April 14, 2019This, one of the greatest masterpieces of Western art by Leonardo da Vinci, presents Cecilia Gallerani (ca. 1473–1536). Young, beautiful and talented, especially in the areas of music and literature, she entered the Court of Milan...
Impressionism
Painting of the Week: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Two Sisters (On the Terrace)
April 7, 2019Today we present to you this beautiful painting by Renoir. It is known under two titles – the title Two Sisters (in French: Les Deux Sœurs) was given to the painting by the artist himself, and the title On the...
Painting of the Week
Painting of the Week: Vincent van Gogh, Irises
March 31, 2019One year before his death on March 30th 1890, Vincent van Gogh chose to enter Saint Paul de Mausole, an asylum in Saint-Rémy, originally a 12th century Augustinian monastery. Isolation was what he wanted. There he created almost...
Impressionism
Painting of the Week: Mary Cassatt, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
March 10, 2019Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she became friends with Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists as one of “les trois...
Cats
15 Cats in Art History Every Cat Lover Would Love
February 17, 2019Today is the day – for some it’s more important than Valentine’s Day, more important than Boxing Day, and even more important than International Pizza Day. Today is… INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY! As the proud owner of...
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The Scandalous Nudes of Gustave Courbet
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Art on the Verge of Eroticism and Pathology by Egon Schiele
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Egon Schiele, Edith with Striped Dress, Sitting
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The Art of Adolf Hitler: Idyllic Paintings of a Monster
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