Elsa Schiaparelli: Surrealism, Art and Revolutionary Fashion
Italian female fashion designer and couturier, the greatest rival of Coco Chanel, and a friend of Surrealists such as Salvador Dalì and Man Ray,...
Caroline Galambosova 9 June 2025
European Art
Celebrating the Male Body in Renaissance Florence
The adoration of the male body was an inspiration for many artists and there is no medium better suited to presenting the full beauty and complexity...
Joanna Kaszubowska 9 June 2025
Masterpiece Story: Flaming June by Sir Frederic Leighton
We have prepared a story about this truly warm painting that can leave you in flames… Ladies and Gentlemen, Flaming June by Sir Frederic...
Joanna Kaszubowska 8 June 2025
5 Best Works by Diego Velázquez
Diego Velázquez is the most important figure of the Spanish Baroque period and one of Europe’s most significant old masters. He was born in...
Anna Ingram 6 June 2025
5 Greatest Baroque Painters and Their Works
Peter Paul Rubens, Caravaggio, Diego Velázquez, Rembrandt van Rijn and Nicolas Poussin – they were the five greatest painters of the 17th century.
Pola Otterstein 6 June 2025
Everything You Must Know About Las Meninas
This is one of Velázquez’s largest paintings in which he worked very hard to create a complex and credible composition that would convey a...
Zuzanna Stańska, Nicole Ganbold 6 June 2025
Diego Velázquez in 10 Paintings
Diego Velázquez was one of the greatest painters of the Spanish Golden Age. Born in 1599 in Seville, he began with religious commissions but soon...
Jimena Aullet 6 June 2025
Paintings Within Paintings: Time to Go Meta in the Art World
A few years ago, the art world celebrated the complete restoration of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window. One of the...
Jimena Escoto 5 June 2025
Masterpiece Story: The Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599–1660) was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and one of the most important painters of...
Joanna Kaszubowska 5 June 2025
Meet Beautiful Cats by Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe
Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, a British engraver, illustrator, and painter is perhaps best known for his paintings of birds. He painted many other...
Sarah Mills 4 June 2025
