Art Movements

Architecture

About A Bad Guy Who Commissioned A Chapel To Save His Soul

Ciao ragazzi! Saluti from Italy! (Zuza is here too, but in a different place, so DailyArtDaily has basically invaded the country!). I’m doing...

Magda Michalska 17 October 2016

Art Forms

How Well Do You Know Shakespeare? Check Your Knowledge [Quiz]

As probably every fan of Shakespeare is aware of, in 2016 The entire Globe (pun intended) celebrates this ingenious writer, poet and actor. On this...

Magda Michalska 7 October 2016

Pop art

Pauline Boty- The Mother Of Pop Art (And She’s Not American)

Surprise, surprise, Pop Art did not begin in the States in the sixties but in the United Kingdom, and already in 1952. Everything started with...

Magda Michalska 29 September 2016

Artist Stories

Titian’s Women Who Are In Fact The Same Woman

Titian had it all. He was so talented that people called him after Dante’s Paradiso “The sun amidst small stars”. He knew how to...

Magda Michalska 28 August 2016

WTF Art History

Weekly Art Gif Selection: Gustav Klimt Edition

This week on Art Gif Selection we present to you an overdose of gold and splendor: Gustav Klimt’s gifs! 1. The desired kiss 2. The undesired...

Zuzanna Stańska 26 August 2016

Artist Stories

Rembrandt And His Saddest Love Story

You know Rembrandt and his portraits in hats. You know his biblical scenes and his views of Amsterdam. You could recognize his style from afar. But...

Magda Michalska 21 August 2016

Artist Stories

Gustave Caillebotte’s Urban Intimacy

Gustave Caillebotte was a master of urban intimacy. He was a member and patron of the artists known as Impressionists, in fact he painted in a much...

Zuzanna Stańska 7 August 2016

Rococo

Modern Grasps On The Swinging Rococo

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Wallace Collection, 1767 Rococo seemed to be a fun period for the aristocracy. They are always depicted at leisure:...

Magda Michalska 26 July 2016

Masterpiece Stories

We Need To Talk Why This Is The Most Expensive Painting Of All Times

What is the most expensive painting of all times? Of course it is The Sistine Madonna by the Renaissance master, Raphael Santi. You’re...

Zuzanna Stańska 7 July 2016

greek mythology icarus Ancient Art

7 Things That Could Only Happen to You in Greek Mythology (old version)

Thinking your luck couldn’t get any worse? Well, brace yourself for a humorous journey into the world of Greek mythology, where even the mighty...

Magda Michalska 5 July 2016

Baroque

The Deadly Sarmatians and their coffin portraits (seriously creepy!)

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Magda Michalska 27 June 2016