Zuzanna Stanska

Art Historian, 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

Middle Ages

His Majesty Jan Van Eyck and the Optical Revolution – Review
By Zuzanna StanskaMarch 26, 2020
Art history has its superstars: Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Gustav Klimt. But with the recent $2.4 million, multiyear restoration of panels of one of the world’s most desirable masterpieces, the Ghent Altarpiece and the...
Art State of Mind

The Best of the Best Museums to Visit Virtually on Lockdown (Constantly Updated)
By Zuzanna StanskaMarch 20, 2020
So, we have a pandemic. The world is locked down. The museums are closed. While we should all be staying home, we have prepared a list of the best of the best museums to visit virtually...
Art State of Mind

10 Art Masterpieces to Calm Your Anxiety
By Zuzanna StanskaMarch 19, 2020
Art can be many different things: a snobbery-builder; a boredom-killer. According to some studies, it may even extend your life. It can also simply make you feel better. Here are 10 art masterpieces to calm your...
dailyart

Plague in Art: 10 Paintings You Should Know in the Times of Coronavirus
By Zuzanna StanskaMarch 9, 2020
As the coronavirus is spreading around the globe we want to show you how artists depicted plague in art in times when plagues were really deadly. I know it’s not comforting under current circumstances but actually,...
Painting of the Week

Painting of the Week: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
By Zuzanna StanskaMarch 1, 2020
A ploughman is plowing the lands, a shepherd is watching over his sheep, an angler is fishing. The ships are sailing to unknown lands, a partridge is sitting on the branch of a tree, the sun...
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...