Masterpiece Story: Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell
In today’s Masterpiece Story, we are featuring Freedom from Want, created by American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell. It captures the...
Coleman Richards 19 January 2025
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Masterpiece Story: Tables for Ladies by Edward Hopper
Indeed, when we look at this painting, everything is very Hopper-ish – the circulating sensation of sadness and loneliness, the weariness of...
Zuzanna Stańska, 19 January 2025
Masterpiece Story: Children Eating Grapes and a Melon by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Children Eating Grapes and a Melon, currently located in the Alte Pinakothek, is one of the most famous paintings by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. This...
Vithória Konzen Dill 19 January 2025
Masterpiece Story: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère is considered Édouard Manet’s last major painting. Presented in the Paris Salon of 1882, just a year before the...
Anastasia Manioudaki 19 January 2025
Masterpiece Story: The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer
Among many representations of domestic scenes of respectable Dutch middle-class households, there is one that never ceases to impress and capture the...
Giordana Goretti 19 January 2025
Masterpiece Story: David by Michelangelo
The biblical figure of David, the young shepherd who defeated Goliath, was a popular subject for sculptors during the Renaissance. However, no...
Vithória Konzen Dill 17 January 2025
Masterpiece Story: Bacchus by Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known as Michelangelo, is undoubtedly among the world’s most treasured artists. His connection to...
Maya M. Tola 17 January 2025
Masterpiece Story: Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus with the Head of Medusa is a sculpture that is commonly overlooked. In fact, it could be the most regularly overlooked...
James Wray 17 January 2025
4 Pietàs by Michelangelo You Need to See
I guess everyone knows Michelangelo’s Pietà from St. Peter Basilica in the Vatican. But did you know, it is not the only sculpture of this subject...
Zuzanna Stańska 17 January 2025
Donatello’s Mary Magdalene: Penitence and Salvation
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, better known as Donatello, was a sculptor born around 1386 in Florence, which is also the city in which he died in...
Soledad Castillo Jara 17 January 2025
Artemisia Gentileschi in 10 Paintings
Artemisia Gentileschi is the most celebrated female painter of the 17th century. Let's look at 10 of her paintings.
Candy Bedworth 16 January 2025
The Story of the Churning of the Ocean of Milk and Why Is Shiva Blue?
The churning of the ocean of milk is a momentous event in Hindu mythology that appears in the Bhagwat Purana, Vishnu Purana, and the Mahabharata. It...
Maya M. Tola 16 January 2025
