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 2 July 2024
Romanticism
Masterpiece Story: The Ancient of Days by William Blake
The Ancient of Days, designed, printed, and hand colored by William Blake, was the frontispiece of his 1794 poem Europe a Prophecy. An epic...
Catriona Miller 3 January 2024
Philipp Otto Runge: The Seer of the Mysteries of God
Philipp Otto Runge died of consumption at the same age as Christ, which to those who believe in signs might be crucial since Runge was a mystic who...
Magda Michalska 26 October 2023
9 Facts About Caspar David Friedrich You Should Know
Caspar David Friedrich, one of the most important German artists of his generation, was born on this day in 1774. He is mostly known for his...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 September 2023
William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience Explained
William Blake was undoubtedly a genius. And, as it usually happens with geniuses and people ahead of their time, he was scorned and disregarded by...
Magda Michalska 22 August 2023
The Story Of Duchess of Alba – Francisco de Goya’s Muse
Few women in 18th-century Spain captured the imagination of contemporaries as thoroughly as Doña María de Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva Álvarez...
Zuzanna Stańska 1 July 2023
Francisco Goya: The First Modernist?
Renowned as one of the most influential Spanish artists, Francisco Goya’s artistic prowess continues to bewitch and intrigue art enthusiasts...
Wendy Gray 17 June 2023
Willem II: The Queer King of the Netherlands
Willem II ruled the Netherlands from 1840 to 1849. In modern terms he would be considered a bisexual man, as he had relationships with both women and...
Jimena Escoto 14 June 2023
The Bible According to William Blake
William Blake (1757–1827), an English Romantic poet, painter, and printmaker, was commissioned by his patron Thomas Butts, a civil servant, to...
Magda Michalska 26 February 2023
Henry Fuseli and His Fantasy World
Henry Fuseli was a master of Romantic imagination. He was one of those artists who shaped our view of the epoch—or, to be more precise, he defined...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 February 2023
William Blake vs. The World by John Higgs: An Invitation to Blake’s Artistic Journey
Painter, poet, printmaker (and even called a prophet by many) of the pre-Romantic period in UK, William Blake is the subject of a recent book...
Montaine Dumont 28 November 2022
How to Do a 21st-Century Grand Tour According to Mr. Bacchus
Have you ever been called a tourist? Have you ever considered yourself one? Maybe for the time on a summer trip, or on your way to explore an unknown...
Christopher Michaut 21 November 2022
