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 Movements
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
Vittore Carpaccio, Young Knight in a Landscape
Young Knight in a Landscape by Vittore Carpaccio from the collection of Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid is one of the earliest examples of a...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 May 2017
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
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
Claude Monet, Springtime
Claude Monet’s Springtime depicts his first wife, Camille Doncieux, seated serenely beneath a canopy of lilacs. The painting is presently held...
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
The Legend Of The Death Of Raphael
Raphael Santi, one of the greatest Renaissance painters died on this day, on Good Friday in 1520. He was only 37 years old and at the peak of his...
Zuzanna Stańska 6 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
JMW 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
