5 Things You Need to Know About Australian Impressionism
Australian Impressionism might not be as well known as its French counterpart, but this late 19th-century art movement was important to the country.
Kelly Hill 11 December 2024
Australian Impressionism might not be as well known as its French counterpart, but this late 19th-century art movement was important to the country.
Kelly Hill 11 December 2024
Woman with Stylus is an ancient Roman fresco unearthed in Pompeii nearly two millennia after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE. Various details...
Natalia Iacobelli 10 December 2024
Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931) was a popular society portrait painter in turn-of-the-century France and England. His elegant portraits are still much...
Alexandra Kiely 9 December 2024
Diego Rivera is mostly famous for his controversial mural for the Rockefeller family and for being the husband of Frida Kahlo. Yet in his lifetime,...
Magda Michalska 9 December 2024
Think Impressionism, and Gustave Caillebotte is not the first name that springs to mind. Yet he helped organize the Impressionist exhibitions, he...
Catriona Miller 9 December 2024
Marxist, nationalist, feminist – these are the words that describe not only the political convictions but also the artworks of Frida Kahlo.
Kacper Grass 9 December 2024
Art history is painted with shades of prohibition—works banned, artists silenced, and masterpieces under attack. From centuries past to the cutting...
Celia Leiva Otto 9 December 2024
Any biography of Carel Fabritius (Dutch, 1622–1654) is necessarily short; there simply is not much known about him. He was born in Beemster, a...
Tom Anderson 9 December 2024
A rollicking adventure through the lives of great leaders and queens from ancient times. Famous female leaders are a fascinating bunch. Here at...
Candy Bedworth, Guest Profile 9 December 2024
The image of Frida Kahlo has become very popular in our society: we can find her face or artworks on colorful and bright t-shirts, earrings, cups,...
Arianna Richetti 9 December 2024
At the suggestion of his mother, Nelson Rockefeller commissioned Diego Rivera, a passionate Mexican socialist artist, to paint the mural that was...
Ruxi Rusu 9 December 2024
Today’s Masterpiece Story is about this lovely genre painting by Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693), a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in...
Alexandra Kiely 8 December 2024