The Unashamed Gaze: The Story of Goya’s Naked (and Clothed) Maja
Which one do you prefer? The Naked Maja or The Clothed Maja? – this question might have been asked by the painter Francisco Goya when he completed...
Magda Michalska 14 May 2026
European Art
The Very Surprising Drawings of Francesco Hayez
The Venetian painter Francesco Hayez is considered a genius of historical Romanticism. In addition to the quality and refinement of his artworks, he...
Rute Ferreira 14 May 2026
10 Pre-Raphaelites You May (Or May Not) Have Heard Of
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the foundations of art and art theory. It quickly went from a group of seven to a movement that counted many...
Edoardo Cesarino 12 May 2026
The Pre-Raphaelites and the Wombat
Many people are obsessed with cute cats, penguins, pandas, koalas, and all sorts of animals. However one rarely hears about the wombat, especially in...
Joanna Kaszubowska 12 May 2026
Literature in the Pre-Raphaelite Paintings
From its very inception, subjects taken from the literature were a staple for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Shakespeare, Keats, and Tennyson were...
Anastasia Manioudaki 12 May 2026
Julia Margaret Cameron—The Queen of Pre-Raphaelite Photography
The English Victorian artist Julia Margaret Cameron (who was actually born in India and raised in France) was an irreplaceable representative of...
Rute Ferreira 12 May 2026
Gustave Courbet in 10 Paintings
Gustave Courbet was the bad boy of 19th-century French art. A political and artistic radical, he was imprisoned after the failed 1871 Commune and...
Catriona Miller 11 May 2026
The Frieze of Life by Edvard Munch
By 1902, Edvard Munch’s life had seen a pattern of chaos within his professional life, his health, and his love life. While his life had become...
Wendy Gray 11 May 2026
Masterpiece Story: Reclining Mother and Child II by Paula Modersohn-Becker
Does any image say primal love more than this powerful painting by Paula Modersohn-Becker? It is an artwork that includes not just children but also...
Candy Bedworth 10 May 2026
Masterpiece Story: Madonna and Child with Two Angels by Fra Filippo Lippi
On the surface, Fra Filippo Lippi’s Madonna and Child with Two Angels appears to be another typical Renaissance painting of the Virgin Mary and the...
James W Singer 10 May 2026
Masterpiece Story: Death and the Miser by Hieronymus Bosch
Death and the Miser is a masterpiece of morbid curiosity. It reflects on the tension between the pursuit of wealth and the inevitability of death,...
James W Singer 8 May 2026
Symbolism Special: Jacek Malczewski’s Dates with Death
Jacek Malczewski is one of the most important Polish symbolist painters. Malczewski is associated with the Young Poland movement (Młoda Polska), a...
Magda Michalska 8 May 2026
