Bartolomeo Veneto, Portrait of a Lady in a Green Dress
Have you ever heard about Bartolomeo Veneto? Only about 30 of his paintings survived. He was a contemporary of Titian, Veronese, and other masters of...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 July 2017
Art Movements
Salvador Dali’s Body To Be Exhumed For Paternity Test
A Spanish court has ordered the remains of Salvador Dalí to be exhumed in an attempt to extract DNA for a paternity claim from a woman born in...
Zuzanna Stańska 4 July 2017
Why You May Not Have Heard of Clyfford Still
Abstract Expressionism is an American movement that included artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. While you probably...
Rachel Istvan 3 July 2017
Lady in Gold: Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt
This portrait also known as Lady in Gold is one of two stunning portraits by Gustav Klimt depicting Adele Bloch-Bauer. This portrait was commissioned...
Zuzanna Stańska 2 July 2017
Vincent van Gogh, Portrait Of Dr Felix Rey
Early the morning of the Christmas Eve 1888, a severely wounded man was brought to the Hôtel-Dieu of Arles for treatment. On duty that night was...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 June 2017
7 Pop Art Masterpieces You Can See Outside US
Well, Pop Art is mostly an US thing. It’s nothing bad, but it means that for the art lovers from other continents it’s way harder to find...
Zuzanna Stańska 23 June 2017
“It was all so ugly”: The Tragedy of John Currie and Dolly Henry
The lives of artists are a constant source of fascination and the life of Staffordshire born artist of John Currie must rank amongst the highest.
Wendy Gray 18 June 2017
Jozef Mehoffer – Strange Garden
Usually on our Painting of the Week cycle we feature internationally acclaimed masterpieces. But today we wanted to feature a beautiful painting,...
Zuzanna Stańska 17 June 2017
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters
This panel is part of a series showing the seasons or times of the year, commissioned from Bruegel by the Antwerp merchant Niclaes Jongelinck. The...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 June 2017
Roy Lichtenstein’s Art Quiz For Every Art Historian
Pop art is popping up again! Yet this time, it won’t at all reveal the mechanisms of the modern society with its mass product, celebrities and...
Magda Michalska 10 June 2017
Art Nouveau Explained in GIFs
The Art Nouveau Season on Europeana explores the depth and diversity of the influential art movement and features beautiful Art Nouveau jewellery,...
Europeana 7 June 2017
Eugene Delacroix – The Death of Sardanapalus
The Death of Sardanapalus is one of the most spectacular paintings of Eugene Delacroix. It currently hangs in the Musée du Louvre in Paris but...
Zuzanna Stańska 4 June 2017
