10 Amazing Annunciation Paintings
Painting the Christian Annunciation through time. How artists represented the announcement of a virgin birth to Mary.
Candy Bedworth 24 March 2025
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Masterpiece Story: The Phoenix Portrait of Elizabeth I
One of the most famous depictions of Elizabeth I is Nicholas Hilliard’s Phoenix Portrait, depicting the Queen with a pendant shaped like a mythical...
Guest Author 24 March 2025
Queen Elizabeth I – Portraits of the Last Tudor
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was the only surviving child of King Henry VIII of England and his second wife Anne Boleyn. Being a girl was hard...
Sarah Mills 24 March 2025
Royaltastic Queens: Women Who Fought the Patriarchy and Won!
Follow us on a short historical tour of thriving royal women across Europe who enjoyed power and success on their own terms. How we measure royal...
Candy Bedworth 24 March 2025
Masterpiece Story: The Ten Largest by Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint was a Swedish abstract artist who was way ahead of her time. She might just be the first abstract painter in Western modern art...
Jinnie Stork 23 March 2025
The Dreamlike, Queer, and Femme Paintings of Marie Laurencin
Most art fans know the names of the male avant-garde artists in the early 1900s, but fewer people know of the women who mastered the craft. Marie...
Guest Author 21 March 2025
The Love of Ida Rubinstein and Romaine Brooks
Being a bisexual woman at the beginning of the 20th century was difficult. They were looked down on, they were scorned and discussed behind their...
Magda Michalska 21 March 2025
Masterpiece Story: Portrait of Virginia Woolf by Vanessa Bell
Rebellious, creative and productive. Three of the so many adjectives to depict the two very intelligent artists sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia...
Merve Parla 21 March 2025
Lee Miller—Photographer of the Extremes
Lee Miller (1907–1977) was a fashion and war photographer, a model, a muse, and a gourmet cook. She lived life to the fullest with all its bright...
Joanna Kaszubowska 20 March 2025
(Sur)reality in the Photography of Kati Horna
Kati Horna (1912-2000) photographed both the real world and the surreal. She was a modern photographer who used her camera to document a civil war...
Natalia Tiberio 20 March 2025
Kiyohara Tama or Eleonora Ragusa: An Amazing Story About a Japanese Female Painter in Sicily
When tracing Japanese art stories in Europe, we found out about this exquisite female painter. Kiyohara Tama or Otama (later known as Eleonora...
Magda Michalska 20 March 2025
Redefining the Hudson River School: Susie Barstow’s First-Ever Biography
During her lifetime, the American landscape artist Susie Barstow (1836-1923) was nationally renowned and commercially successful. So why don’t...
Emily Snow 19 March 2025
