Gustav Klimt’s Lost and Found Viennese Beauty – Lady with Fan
Fräuleins (Ladies), step aside! This steaming-hot brunette is back in town! After 100 years of captivity, away from the Viennese public, she...
Giordana Goretti 21 February 2022
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Mary Beale – England’s First Professional Female Artist
Mary Beale was a Baroque painter from the 17th century. Her talent led her to become the first professional British female artist. Luckily, she...
Jimena Escoto 20 February 2022
5 Things You Should Know About Michaelina Wautier
Michaelina Wautier was born in Mons in 1604. This Flemish painter has been absent in art history for many years, but her life and work are slowly...
Vithória Konzen Dill 20 February 2022
Elisabetta Sirani: The Glory of the Female Sex
Elisabetta Sirani (1638–1665) was born in Bologna, a progressive city with a liberal attitude towards educating women. She was a pioneering female...
Gokce Dyson 20 February 2022
Masterpiece Story: Claude Monet, The Train in the Snow
Claude Monet painted The Train in the Snow in 1875. The work was not shown in the Impressionist exhibition, but it reveals Monet’s attraction...
Zuzanna Stańska 18 February 2022
Claude Monet and Saint Lazare Train Station
Between 1853 and 1870 Paris has been renovated and modernized by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann. This prefect of the...
Zuzanna Stańska 18 February 2022
Fabulous Railway Station Paintings from the Golden Age of Train Travel
Once upon a time, train travel was the height of fashion. That’s why the second half of the 19th century and first few decades of the 20th...
Alexandra Kiely 18 February 2022
Official Portraits of Michelle and Barack Obama
On February 12, 2018, the official portraits of former US president Barack Obama and the first lady Michelle were unveiled. They are the latest...
Karolina 17 February 2022
Where is the Queen? Black Women in Western Art
For centuries, Black women appeared in Western art as slaves, servants, or exotic novelties. But as regal queens and leaders? Shamefully not. We will...
Candy Bedworth 17 February 2022
Masterpiece Story: The African King Caspar by Hendrik Heerschop
White subjects have dominated the Western art tradition for millennia, while people of color have been vastly underrepresented and misrepresented.
James W Singer 17 February 2022
Remembering Keith Haring, Our Rainbow Angel
Today, we are celebrating the LGBTQ+ community by remembering Keith Haring, a brilliant artist whose vigorous and thoughtful works have inspired...
Guest Profile 16 February 2022
6 Best Works in the Van Gogh Museum That Are Not by Van Gogh
The Van Gogh Museum is dedicated to the life and works of Vincent van Gogh. It holds the largest collection of Van Gogh paintings and drawings in the...
Anastasia Manioudaki 15 February 2022
