The Holy Story: The Driving Force of Renaissance Art
The sudden expansion in trade, banking and the textile industry in the late 1200s brought an influx of labouring classes to the cities of...
Wendy Gray 27 April 2017
Art Movements
Jeff Koons And Louis Vuitton Bags – A Perfect Match?
Jeff Koons was always an enfant terrible of contemporary art. This time, by working on the new collection “Masters” with Louis Vuitton he...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 April 2017
Pablo Picasso’s Bulls: On The Road To Simplicity
Pablo Picasso’s bulls are something that once seen, cannot be forgotten. The Bull is a series of 11 lithographs created around Christmas in...
Zuzanna Stańska 19 April 2017
Masterpiece Story: Springtime by Claude Monet
Claude Monet’s Springtime depicts his first wife, Camille Doncieux, who is absorbed by reading in the shadow of lilacs. The painting is...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 April 2017
The (Not So) Simple Style of Emil Carlsen
Emil Carlsen was, for roughly the first forty years of his life, poor and relatively unknown. After all, he rejected the growing appeal of florid...
Anthony de Feo 8 April 2017
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt And His Mad Heads
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt was a German-Austrian Late Baroque sculptor most famous for his “Character Heads”, a collection of busts with...
Zuzanna Stańska 4 April 2017
J. M. W. Turner and Honore Daumier – Sign Of Their Times
The early part of the 19th Century saw population rises, expansions of cities and the industrialisation of productivity which brought new challenges...
Wendy Gray 2 April 2017
Rembrandt Self-Portrait With Curly Hair
Do you know which European museum has one of the most interesting collections of Rembrandt van Rijn’s etchings? It’s Rembrandt House...
Zuzanna Stańska 1 April 2017
6 Things You Must Know About Scrovegni Chapel
Scrovegni Chapel in Padua is one of the most famous Proto-Renaissance masterpieces. Decorated by Giotto di Bondone was completed in 1305 for the...
Zuzanna Stańska 31 March 2017
Paul Gauguin, The Yellow Christ
Yellow Christ is a painting created by Paul Gauguin in 1889 in Pont-Aven. Now it is owned by Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Paul Gauguin, Self-Portrait...
Zuzanna Stańska 26 March 2017
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Primavera by Botticelli
Primavera by Sandro Botticelli is one of the most famous paintings of the Renaissance. Its fame rests not just on its visual appeal but on the...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 March 2017
Edgar Degas and the Paris Milliners
When we think of Edgar Degas, we see his depictions of ballet dancers, nude bathers, and racetracks. But Degas had another favorite subject – the...
Zuzanna Stańska 18 March 2017
