Visit the Bargello National Museum in Florence
Museo Nazionale del Bargello or the Bargello National Museum is among Florence’s most important museums along with the Uffizi Gallery and the...
Maya M. Tola 18 May 2023
Architecture
Walsall’s Mona Lisa in the Garman Ryan Collection
The Garman Ryan Collection holds some of the most fascinating and esoteric artworks you will ever see. Also the story of how two women managed to...
Candy Bedworth 8 May 2023
Jali in Mughal Architecture, the Most Delicate Stone Curtains
The jali, or pierced screens, have been extensively employed in Indian construction since time immemorial. They appear in both Hindu and Islamic...
Maya M. Tola 18 April 2023
Four Groundbreaking Buildings by Francesco Borromini
Francesco Borromini (1599-1667) was the most innovative and imaginative architect of the Italian Baroque tradition. Along with his contemporaries...
Alexandra Kiely 10 April 2023
Rococo and Baroque Architecture in Turkey
Representing splendor, opulence, and brilliance, Rococo art prevailed in Europe from the year 1700. It followed the Baroque period in art, which...
Merve Parla 10 April 2023
An Artsy Travel to the Ancient City of Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka
Many edifices, shrines, dagobas, and colossal figures attest to the glory of Polonnaruwa, the second (and strikingly beautiful) capital of ancient...
Elsa Vallarino 6 April 2023
Fooling the Eye: Illusionistic Games in Andrea Mantegna’s Bridal Chamber
A masterpiece of the early Italian Renaissance, Andrea Mantegna’s Bridal Chamber has been described as the most beautiful room in the world.
Natalia Iacobelli 30 March 2023
Siah Armajani – An Iranian Installation Artist
It’s high time to learn more about Iran and its contemporary artists. Meet Siah Armajani (1939–2020). His works are known across the United...
Magda Michalska 19 January 2023
Discover 3 Unbuilt Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright
We all know the iconic realizations designed by Frank Lloyd Wright: everyone recognizes the Guggenheim Museum in New York or the famous Fallingwater...
Joanna Kaszubowska 12 January 2023
Walter Gropius’ New Illustrated Biography
In the history of 20th-century design, modernists are seen as figures of the movement rather than people who were actually living and breathing. The...
Ania Kaczynska 9 December 2022
The Most Bizarre Building in Scotland: Pineapple House
You likely would not connect pineapples and architecture, right? Wrong! There exists a real artistic folly, and not in Las Vegas where such a...
Magda Michalska 30 November 2022
Roberto Burle Marx: The Artist of Landscape Design
When you think about Modernist architecture, probably Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, or Oscar Niemeyer come to mind. But have you paid attention to...
Natalia Tiberio 3 October 2022
