15 Facts About Sistine Chapel You Need To Know
The Sistine Chapel is one of the most famous art places in the world – all because of being the place where a new pope is selected and because...
Zuzanna Stańska 6 March 2018
Art Movements
The Story Of The Art Dealer Durand-Ruel, The Man Behind Impressionism
The story is known: at the end of the 19th century a group of young French artists dissatisfied with academic rules began to develop a new type of...
Rute Ferreira 16 February 2018
Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus (c. 1410/1420 – 1475/1476) was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444, where, along with Hans Memling, he became...
Zuzanna Stańska 11 February 2018
Maurizio Cattelan And His Golden “America”
Couple of days ago the White House asked Guggenheim Museum to borrow a painting “Landscape With Snow” by Vincent van Gogh for the...
Zuzanna Stańska 4 February 2018
The Real Story of the Goddess Gifs
People are going crazy over these goddess gifs – 24 ancient female statues shaking what their mothers gave them. Artist Nina Paley created the...
Alexandra Kiely 27 January 2018
Women’s Place Is In The Kitchen: The Story of Dutch Genre Painting
One of the unquestionable masters of Dutch genre painting was Jan Vermeer. However, today I want to present two less known painters: Peter de Hooch...
Magda Michalska 11 January 2018
The Great Stanisław Wyspiański and His Many Talents
He is considered by many of his compatriots to have been something of a Leonardo da Vinci of the 19th century. Stanisław Wyspiański and his many...
Pola Otterstein 10 January 2018
Enlightenment and Joseph Wright ‘of Derby’
Artists of the turn of the 17th and 18th century started to secularise traditional subject matters: science and intellectual exploration began to...
Magda Michalska 8 January 2018
Three 16th-Century Dutchmen You Should Know
How many painters from the Netherlands do you know? Rembrandt, Bosch, Vermeer… But have you heard of Joachim Patinir, Jan Gossaer,...
Magda Michalska 29 December 2017
Why Did Andy Warhol Love Christmas?
Who would guess that Andy Warhol, one of the most decadent artists of the 20th century, the owner of the controversial Factory leading a scandalous...
Magda Michalska 19 December 2017
Titian, Sacred and Profane Love
Sacred and Profane Love is mysterious an oil painting by Titian, probably painted in 1514, early in his career. The painting is presumed to have been...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 December 2017
Why Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Ugly Old Men
The reason is: at the time, philosophers thought that Christ was born like a “perfectly formed and unchanged” man, aka he came out...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 December 2017
