Education Matters! Women in Art Academies
From the 17th to the 19th century, art academies across Europe and America excluded women from their classrooms. Only a few of them count as...
Jimena Escoto 24 January 2024
From the 17th to the 19th century, art academies across Europe and America excluded women from their classrooms. Only a few of them count as...
Jimena Escoto 24 January 2024
Have you ever wondered where the world’s most famous artists went to school? Many studied at one (or more) of these six art academies. The schools...
Alexandra Kiely 24 January 2024
Édouard Manet’s The Luncheon on the Grass (Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe) (1863) was one of the first works that broke away from established...
Catriona Miller 23 January 2024
Naturally, Edvard Munch is best known for his paintings. However, he was also one of the first of the generation of painters who dabbled in amateur...
Zuzanna Stańska 22 January 2024
Vincent van Gogh famously recorded himself in numerous self-portraits, but he hated photography and supposedly he never sat for a photo as an adult.
Zuzanna Stańska 22 January 2024
On August 19, 1839, the French government acquired the patent for the daguerreotype and made it the first publicly available photographic process. As...
Zuzanna Stańska 22 January 2024
Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi by Angelica Kauffman shows a pretty Roman woman and her three children. But it’s much more than that. It has an...
Alexandra Kiely 21 January 2024
Lust, Gluttony, and Sloth. Three of the Seven Deadly Sins are depicted in Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s The Roses of Heliogabalus. Many other sins are...
James W Singer 21 January 2024
Mithras Slaying the Bull is a compilation of the entire religious and symbolic images of Mithraism. It reflects promised immortality and personal...
James W Singer 21 January 2024
Why is food such a popular image for art and culture? For millennia it has been a source of inspiration from ancient Roman mosaics through Dutch...
James W Singer 20 January 2024
Chinese culture has always been an object of European fascination – in art history, we see it in paintings, ornaments, architecture, fashion, and...
Nicole Ganbold 20 January 2024
In the art world, it is commonly agreed upon that still life painting as a genre rose in the Netherlands in the last quarter of the 16th century. The...
Irina Diana Calu 20 January 2024