Artistic Life in the Time of the Bonapartes. Ingres at Palazzo Reale
An artist impossible to classify, a revolutionary one, both realistic and mannerist, perceived as the heir of Raphael and a precursor of Picasso.
Maria Frazzoni 29 May 2019
Art Movements
Edvard Munch: Love and Angst in British Museum
“We do not want pretty pictures to be hung on drawing-room walls. We want… an art that arrests and engages. An art of one’s innermost...
Joanna Kaszubowska 23 May 2019
Gentle Giant in the River. Medieval Representations of Saint Christopher
In 1904, an extensive report made for the British Archaeological Association revealed that in England there were more wall paintings of Saint...
Guest Profile 21 May 2019
Josef Šíma: from Czech Republic to Paris
Josef Šíma was born in Jaromer, in today’s Czech Republic in 1891, but he became a naturalized French citizen (he took the citizenship...
Magda Michalska 9 May 2019
Hell Hath No Fury. The Merry Murderess of Early Modern Art
Hell hath no fury like a murderess scorned and, boy, you better believe it! If you were to take a moment and google ‘murder in art’ your...
Tony Heathfield 30 April 2019
Notre-Dame de Paris – Its Present and Future
After Monday’s fire at Notre-Dame de Paris, I have been looking continuously for news about the building’s status. I sorted through all...
Alexandra Kiely 22 April 2019
Painting of the Week: Raphael, Transfiguration
The Transfiguration was the last painting created by Raphael. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, the later Pope Clement VII (1523–1534) and...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 April 2019
Notre-Dame Is Burning Down
The world has received the very sad news that Paris’s famous Notre-Dame cathedral is burning down. Sometime on April 15, 2019, during renovations...
Alexandra Kiely 15 April 2019
Art of the Spanish Civil War: Political Propaganda and the Modernist Avant-Garde
April 1, 1939 marked not only the end of the Spanish Civil War but also the fall of the Second Spanish Republic. The victory of General Francisco...
Kacper Grass 1 April 2019
Painting Norway – Harald Sohlberg at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Meet Harald Sohlberg (1869-1935), the creator of the “National Painting of Norway”. He may not be as well-known outside of Norway as...
Joanna Kaszubowska 22 March 2019
Antonello da Messina at Palazzo Reale
An Italian who became the absolute genius of universal painting through a technique of rare precision, a minute realism, the best of Flemish...
Maria Frazzoni 20 March 2019
Gustave Moreau Museum
We all know that feeling of travelling back in time when we encounter a trace of our past, whether by finding an object from our childhood, a book...
Christopher Michaut 18 March 2019
