Top 10 Most Famous Chinese Paintings
With thousands of years of continuous history, China is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. It is also one of the most culturally unique...
Marina Kochetkova 29 January 2025
With thousands of years of continuous history, China is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. It is also one of the most culturally unique...
Marina Kochetkova 29 January 2025
The 2025 Lunar New Year, begins on January 29th. This is the Year of the Wood Snake, sixth animal of the Chinese zodiac, known for wisdom and intuition. Let us take a look at some of the East Asian art history that celebrates this awesome animal!
Candy Bedworth 28 January 2025
Edo period in Japan lasted from 1603 to 1867/1868. During this time the country was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate. Those 250 years were a time of...
Joanna Kaszubowska 28 January 2025
Pieter Bruegel The Elder was a prominent Flemish painter of the 16th century, famed for his vivid, often humorous depictions of peasant life and...
Guest Profile 27 January 2025
At a time when American newspapers flourished and new dailies popped up like weeds, Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900) invited reporters to his...
Guest Profile 27 January 2025
Piero della Francesca was not only an accomplished artist of the Early Renaissance, but also one of the greatest mathematicians of his day. His works...
Natalia Iacobelli 27 January 2025
Symbolism developed in the 19th century. It began as a literary movement but quickly moved into other art forms. Symbolist painters rejected the...
Anastasia Manioudaki 27 January 2025
There are already several articles that treat in detail the life and works of Francisco Goya. If you want to learn about his career or most famous...
Magda Michalska 27 January 2025
The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger is one of those paintings that we know so well we tend to forget to look closer. It’s like the Mona...
Joanna Kaszubowska 27 January 2025
Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps is one of the most famous and politically iconic images of European art history. However, it is a...
James W Singer 26 January 2025
Queen Cleopatra is a popular subject today – as she was in the late 19th century. Alexandre Cabanel’s Cleopatra explores a single moment of her...
James W Singer 26 January 2025
In a Neoclassicist masterpiece painted on the eve of the French Revolution, Jacques-Louis David depicts the beginning of an epic Roman story in The...
Coleman Richards 26 January 2025