The Art of Ekphrasis: Shakespeare’s Lucrece
It is most common to talk about paintings or sculptures inspired by a piece of literature. Yet, this relationship between arts is not unidirectional.
Jimena Escoto 23 April 2024
History
Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries
While today, tapestries are seemingly minor works of art, during the Renaissance, nothing was declared more spectacular than a set of tapestries...
Anna Ingram 22 April 2024
The Serpent Queen: Renaissance Tapestries in Modern TV Series
The Serpent Queen, a show produced by Starz, tells the story of Catherine de Medici’s life and reign in 16th-century France. In the first...
Anna Ingram 22 April 2024
Banquet Hall with Roman Frescoes Unearthed in Pompeii After 2,000 Years
Archeologists have discovered a spectacular banquet hall decorated with frescoes depicting mythological characters during the excavations currently...
Natalia Iacobelli 18 April 2024
The Myth of the Judgement of Paris in Art
According to Greek mythology, the Judgement of Paris is a story which leads up to the start of the Trojan War. As the myth goes, three goddesses are...
Anna Ingram 17 April 2024
The Complicated History of Norse Mythology in Art
Literally speaking, mythology is an old-school kind of storytelling. “Mythos” is a Greek word for “story” while “logia” means...
Lana Pajdas 17 April 2024
Capturing Light: The Pioneers of Photography in France
It all officially began in 1839 in two countries at the same time: in the UK, the Royal Academy announced the discovery of a method of capturing...
Magda Michalska 22 March 2024
The Dark Age of Rome – The Cadaver Synod
In a career that spanned over two decades, Jean-Paul Laurens painted some of French art’s most plaintive historical moments: two young princes...
Guest Author 15 March 2024
Eyewitness to Space: The NASA Art Program
Did you know that NASA has quite a unique art collection and that they used to commission artists to document their missions and projects? Let us...
Marta Wiktoria Bryll 14 March 2024
Satan: Artistic Evolution of the Dark Lord
Satan, Lucifer, or the Devil is an archetypal malevolent being deemed the very embodiment of evil, darkness, and temptation within Christianity.
Maya M. Tola 9 March 2024
Malva Schalek: Art in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Malva Schalek, also known as Malvína Schalková, was a Czech-Jewish artist who endured the turbulent landscape of the early 20th century and was...
Andreea Iancu 27 January 2024
Transatlantic Series on Netflix: Who Were the 10 Artists Fleeing the Nazis?
During WWII the American team Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC) led by Varian Fry rescued more than 2,000 people from the Nazi regime between 1940 and...
Jimena Escoto, 25 January 2024
