The Explosive Life and Death of Carel Fabritius
There is very little known about the life of Carel Fabritius. The scholars didn’t really get a chance to delve into archival materials about...
Magda Michalska 16 May 2018
Baroque
Women’s Place Is In The Kitchen: The Story of Dutch Genre Painting
One of the unquestionable masters of Dutch genre painting was Jan Vermeer. However, today I want to present two less known painters: Peter de Hooch...
Magda Michalska 11 January 2018
Three 16th-Century Dutchmen You Should Know
How many painters from the Netherlands do you know? Rembrandt, Bosch, Vermeer… But have you heard of Joachim Patinir, Jan Gossaer,...
Magda Michalska 29 December 2017
Was Nicolas Poussin a Baroque Artist?
Nicolas Poussin is often considered a representative of French Baroque, as he worked in the first half of the 1600s. Yet, his paintings are so...
Magda Michalska 16 November 2017
Annibale Carracci: The Inventor of Baroque Painting?
When did Mannierism give way to a new style? Was it with Caravaggio‘s dramatic lighting, or Rubens‘s opulence? Can we distinguish a...
Magda Michalska 27 September 2017
Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
This is a typical Vermeer – an ideal woman in an ideal home. In fact, everything around is ideal. Balanced shapes and colors (mainly the...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 September 2017
Painting Of The Week: Caravaggio, Saint John the Baptist
It’s Sunday and it’s time for some classics. This masterpiece is one of only a few original works by Caravaggio in American collections.
Zuzanna Stańska 30 July 2017
Reflecting the Invisible or Distorting the Visible: Mirrors in Art
People have always been fascinated with their reflections. In the visual art the mirror has been interpreted as an instrument to show admiration or...
Alina Manevskaya 19 July 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
The Art of Story Telling: The Abduction of the Sabine Women
If, as is popularly believed, there are only seven plot types in storytelling it is not surprising to find artists inspired by the same narrative at...
Wendy Gray 23 February 2017
Han van Meegeren: Vermeer’s Forger And His Fakes
Who wouldn’t love to discover an unknown original painting by Johannes Vermeer? It must be a blissful moment to find an untouched and...
Magda Michalska 2 September 2016
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
