Masterpiece Story: Marriage A-la-Mode by William Hogarth
The 18th-century British painter William Hogarth created an insightful series of paintings about the arranged marriages of his times, entitled...
Pola Otterstein 19 March 2024
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Masterpiece Story: The Reluctant Bride by Auguste Toulmouche
Have you ever seen a bride more… angry? Should this not be the happiest day of her life? The Reluctant Bride or The Hesitant Fiancée by Auguste...
Jimena Escoto 19 March 2024
Alexandra Exter: Multi-Talented Cubo-Futurist in Paris
Alexandra Exter was a painter and designer of the Russian and Ukrainian avant-garde. Her work isn’t limited to just one genre or movement. She was...
Errika Gerakiti 19 March 2024
Masterpiece Story: Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen by Joshua Reynolds
Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen is a huge triple portrait of the Montgomery sisters by Sir Joshua Reynolds. It thematizes aristocratic marriage...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 19 March 2024
Alphonse Mucha – Art Nouveau Master
Alphonse Mucha is perhaps the artist most publicly associated with Art Nouveau. Today we explore the life and work of the Czech master. Alphonse...
Europeana 18 March 2024
Tiffany Glass and the American Art Nouveau Movement
Tiffany Glass is one of the most recognizable expressions of art to emerge at the turn of the 20th century and is a fine example of the American Art...
Maya M. Tola 18 March 2024
Constance Mayer and Pierre Prud’hon: Better Together?
Constance Mayer (1775-1821) was one of a generation of women artists who took advantage of the new freedoms offered by the French Revolution. She...
Catriona Miller 18 March 2024
Art Nouveau’s Unsung Female Artists
Art Nouveau, the movement that flourished between 1890 and 1910, developed at the apex of Belle Époque, the period which encouraged modernity and...
Anastasia Tsaleza 18 March 2024
Art Nouveau Explained
Art Nouveau is one of the most distinguished styles in art. Even though its duration was brief, it quickly became a fetish of the elite. It spread...
Errika Gerakiti 18 March 2024
Tove Jansson’s Life of Wonders
Best known for the Moomins from her series of novels, comic strips, and short stories, Tove Jansson was an illustrator, painter, and writer. Born in...
Natalia Tiberio 17 March 2024
Caravaggio’s Last Painting: The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula
In May 1610, Caravaggio completed The Martyrdom of St Ursula. Two months later, he was dead. We investigate the story behind his last commission,...
Catriona Miller 17 March 2024
Masterpiece Story: Três Orixás by Djanira da Motta e Silva
Djanira da Motta e Silva pictured a very unusual Holy Trinity made of three deities from the Afro-Brazilian Pantheon. They are accompanied by...
Alicja Gluszek 17 March 2024
