In the mid-18th century, Florentine artist Violante Ferroni painted two large religious scenes for the atrium of San Giovanni di Dio hospital. Almost...
Alexandra Kiely 12 March 2022
Henry Spencer Moore was an English artist. Although his primary role was as a sculptor, there are lots of examples of his sketches. His forms are...
Candy Bedworth 11 March 2022
When we think of Gustav Klimt we imagine beautiful portraits of women, sensual and dangerous compositions, gold and decorative motifs. However, if...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 March 2022
There are many social, political, scientific, and economic models that are embracing the idea of the “both/and” philosophy. It is my...
Candy Bedworth 10 March 2022
A pioneering female sculptor of the 20th century, Anna Hyatt Huntington created artworks that are still visible all over New York City. Here are some...
Alexandra Kiely 10 March 2022
The sources of Russian political actionism are in the unofficial art of the 1960s. Nonconformism emerged in a country where kitschy socialist realism...
Diana Sadretdinova 7 March 2022
In a little town in the north of Italy, there’s a very special museum—the en plein air permanent exhibition of the most significant artworks of...
Camilla de Laurentis 7 March 2022
There is a lot happening in this Sistine Chapel altar-wall fresco. Narratives within other narratives that contain enough imagery to last scholars a...
Rachel Witte 6 March 2022
No, I am not indulging in casual profanity, in this painting, we are actually looking at God’s bare bottom and it graces the ceiling of the Sistine...
Guest Profile 6 March 2022
The Pietà – or Virgin of Pity – is the representation of the Blessed Virgin holding her divine son on her knees. This iconic type...
Montaine Dumont 6 March 2022
There are dozens if not hundreds of forged documents in the history of the world. They weren’t forged just for fun. Some of them were the basis...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 March 2022
At the beginning of the 18th century in New Spain (colonial Mexico), portraits of local elites became an essential genre. In a society with a strong...
Wen Gu 3 March 2022
