10 Miniature Sculptures By Tatsuya Tanaka To Brighten Your Day
Japanese miniature craftsmanship has been evolving for the past couple of centuries. Their love for scaled-down everyday objects gained the interest...
Sandra Juszczyk 9 January 2025
Art Forms
Miniature Paintings of the Mughal Empire
The Mughals descended from a lineage of formidable conquerors such as Genghis Khan and Amir Timur. They were themselves the most dominant force in...
Maya M. Tola 9 January 2025
The Miniature Rooms of Narcissa Niblack Thorne
The Thorne miniature rooms are the brainchild of Narcissa Thorne, who crafted them between 1932 and 1940 on a 1:12 scale. Incredibly detailed and...
Maya M. Tola 9 January 2025
Medieval Take on Comic Books—Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
The Middle Ages have a very sketchy reputation. On one hand, we know that a lot of amazing art was created during that time. On the other hand,...
Joanna Kaszubowska 9 January 2025
David Bowie: From Popstar to Neo-Expressionist Painter
Most people know David Bowie as a pop star and a performer, but did you know he had a secret talent? Not only did he embrace music and performing...
Michel Rutten 8 January 2025
7 Famous Musicians Who Paint: Making Music and Art
Creatively speaking, the term “art” can mean many things. Whether it is music, writing, painting, sculpting, or drawing, it is all under...
Rachel Witte 8 January 2025
Have You Seen These Statues of Famous Musicians?
There are good, bad, and ugly statues of the musical greats. Let’s take a look at 10 sculptures of famous musicians, old and contemporary, that...
Candy Bedworth 8 January 2025
Celebrities Who Are Little-Known for Their Painting Careers
They say that a creative mind will have its outlet in several areas of art. This explains Leonardo da Vinci’s gift in both painting and...
Merve Parla 8 January 2025
Shadows in Japanese Culture
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki (1886–1965) was an important Japanese writer, mainly during the Shōwa period. One of the author’s most important essays...
Luciana Craciun 7 January 2025
Let Your Voice Be Heard: Ai Weiwei in 10 Artworks
Ai Weiwei is the world’s most famous art dissident. Here we take a tour of ten of his most significant works.
Candy Bedworth 6 January 2025
All You Need to Know About the Epiphany
The Epiphany was already a popular subject in painting in the Middle Ages, yet it became a topos during the Renaissance when each respected painter...
Magda Michalska 6 January 2025
The Adoration of the Magi: Depictions in Christian Art
The Adoration of the Magi (or the Adoration of the Kings) is one of the two biblical accounts that convey the birth of Jesus Christ and describes the...
Maya M. Tola 6 January 2025
