Masterpiece Story: Woman on the Balcony by Carl Gustav Carus
Woman on the Balcony is an intimate portrait of a person lost in thought. There is no action and no obvious story to interpret. However, its quiet...
James W Singer 25 April 2022
Woman on the Balcony is an intimate portrait of a person lost in thought. There is no action and no obvious story to interpret. However, its quiet...
James W Singer 25 April 2022
Liberty Leading the People is probably the best-known artwork of one of the greatest artists of French Romanticism Eugène Delacroix. The painting,...
Rute Ferreira 26 January 2022
In the 19th century, Europeans went crazy for one story: Atala, or the Story of Two Lovers in the Desert. It is a novel by René de Chateaubriand...
Jimena Escoto 3 January 2022
The rediscovery of medieval civilization is one of the most striking French intellectual curiosities of the later 18th century and early 19th...
Montaine Dumont 28 September 2021
Caspar David Friedrich, one of the most important German artist of his generation, was born on this day in 1774. He is mostly known for...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 September 2021
Francisco Goya (1746-1828) is considered to be the founder of the national genre in Spain. He was talented in many areas: portraits, historical...
Elizaveta Ermakova 29 June 2021
During his lifetime, captivated by the beauty of nature, John Constable’s landscapes received mixed reviews. He thought he was never going to...
Gokce Dyson 16 March 2021
What is Wagnerism? There are perhaps no other cultural movements in the world that we have named after one person. Wagnerism was admiration for...
Alina Manevskaya 14 January 2021
The Clark Art Institute, often referred to as “The Clark,” was founded in 1950 to house the extensive art collection of Sterling and Francine...
Anastasia Manioudaki 15 October 2020
When I saw the portrait of Julia, Lady Peel by Sir Thomas Lawrence in the Frick Collection, I was intrigued by the artwork. There is a...
Marina Kochetkova 5 July 2020
If music is the soul of an album then the art on the cover must be its body. The choice of artwork for an album cover is an important one because at...
Anastasia Manioudaki 11 May 2020
It is well known that Italy is a motherland of world masterpieces. Renaissance paintings, baroque architecture and Italian opera are the children of...
Kateryna Martynova 23 April 2020