Portrayal of an Abandoned Hero: Philoctetes
How would you feel if your friends abandoned you on an uninhabited island with a limited amount of food and no shelter just because you were injured?...
Erol Degirmenci 16 April 2021
Art Forms
700th Anniversary of Dante’s Death in 15 Great Artworks
Hardly any author has been such a rich source of literary inspiration for the visual arts as Dante Alighieri. His two major works, the La Vita Nuova...
Caroline Galambosova 13 April 2021
Mysterious Female Nude Statuettes of the Parthian Empire
Several female nude statuettes have been unearthed from the subterranean landscape of ancient Iraq. Rendered in the Greco-Babylonian style, these...
Marga Patterson 13 April 2021
Secrets of Ghost Photography in the 19th Century
Spirit photography, photographs that allegedly show ghosts, have always captured the eye. They are peculiar, bizarre, but above all else horrifying.
Sofia Rodriguez Cuevas 11 April 2021
The Story of Damien Hirst’s Famous Shark
This shark is considered the iconic work of British art from the 1990s and has become a symbol of Britart worldwide. It was funded by Charles...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 April 2021
Famous Lobsters in Art
Lobsters, large marine crustaceans, have been eaten by humans since prehistoric times. They became a delicacy by the Roman period. They were also...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 April 2021
Artistic Cartography 2: The Charming History of Ancient Globes
Cartography is the production of geographical maps and globes and it has existed, more or less, since the beginning of recorded history. It could be...
Camilla de Laurentis 7 April 2021
Exploring Extremes: Art and Industry by David Stacey. Book Review
Art and industry may sound like an unlikely combination, usually we see them almost at the extremes of the spectrum of life. That is to say, Art...
Joanna Kaszubowska 5 April 2021
Colorful Temples in the World
Whether colors represent environmental phenomena, human history, or personal freedom, there are canvases that exist beyond an artist’s studio.
Anuradha Sroha 4 April 2021
Victorian Feminists and Their Supernatural Powers
The Victorian feminists in 19th century England paved the way for the women’s movement across the world. The “New Woman,” as she was...
Anastasia Manioudaki 3 April 2021
Five More Things Everyone Should Know About the Victorians
The last time that we talked about the Victorian era, we looked at steam travel, Alice in Wonderland, Romanticism, the Pre-Raphaelites and Sherlock...
Sarah Mills 2 April 2021
Women in Rossetti’s Life and Art: Muses and Lovers
Anyone who knows of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood will remember their style by the representation of a very particular type of women – the...
Bolor Jargalsaikhan 1 April 2021
