Most Beautiful Dresses: Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo
The best-known image of Eleanor of Toledo is also one of the most beautiful dresses in art history. Don’t be too distracted by the beauty of the...
Vithória Konzen Dill 24 May 2022
Mannerism
Parmigianino: Capturing Everyday Renaissance Life Through Drawings
Francesco Mazzola, known as Parmigianino, produced many drawings that captured normal scenes of everyday life during the Renaissance. These drawings...
Nina Relf 16 May 2022
Arcimboldo’s Allegories of the Seasons
Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s paintings of the four seasons have astonished audiences from the 16th century to this day. Even though, allegorical...
Anastasia Manioudaki 9 January 2022
The Renaissance Splendour: Meet Four Powerful Women of Bronzino
Agnolo di Cosimo (1503-1572), known as Bronzino, was an Italian Mannerist painter. He lived and worked in Florence and became the court painter of...
Joanna Kaszubowska 20 October 2021
Queen Elizabeth I – Portraits of the Last Tudor Rose
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was the only surviving child of King Henry VIII of England and his second wife Anne Boleyn. Being a girl was hard...
Sarah Mills 7 May 2021
Masterpiece Story: An Allegory with Venus and Cupid by Agnolo Bronzino
An Allegory with Venus and Cupid by Agnolo Bronzino from the National Gallery in London is one of the most mysterious masterpieces of Mannerism. It...
Joanna Kaszubowska 2 February 2020
Painting of the Week: Jacopo Tintoretto, Marriage at Cana
Because it's the New Year's Eve tomorrow and many of you are going to have fun I've chosen for our painting of the week a work depicting a party.
Kate Wojtczak 30 December 2018
