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 (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
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
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
He is considered by many of his compatriots to have been something of a Leonardo da Vinci of the 19th century. Stanisław Wyspiański’s talents...
Pola Otterstein 10 January 2018
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
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
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
Nicolas Poussin is often considered a representative of French Baroque, as he worked in the first half of the 1600s. Yet, his paintings are so...
Magda Michalska 16 November 2017
The Intervention of the Sabine Women is one of these paintings that is widely known, and considered to be a “classic” but rarely someone...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 November 2017
Halloween is coming and in our team we were thinking who should we feature tomorrow on our DailyArt app (available for free on iOS and Android).
Zuzanna Stańska 30 October 2017
Man Ray’s Cadeau, 1921, editioned replica 1972, known also as a ‘Gift’, is one of the famous icons of the surrealist movement. It consists...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 October 2017
