A Tribute to Medical Services: Doctors in Paintings
During the Covid-19 pandemic, we have heard a lot about doctors and healthcare workers, thinking of them as present-day heroes facing up to death.
Camilla de Laurentis 7 April 2025
European Art
Masterpiece Story: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
The Mona Lisa is an icon and masterpiece featured in numerous movies, television shows, and music videos. It is famous for being Leonardo da...
Anna Ingram 6 April 2025
Masterpiece Story: Louise de Lorraine by François Clouet (School)
Portrait of Louise de Lorraine is a French Renaissance painting that exudes the artistic ideas of its time and captures the queen’s personal and...
James W Singer 6 April 2025
Masterpiece Story: The Calumny of Apelles by Sandro Botticelli
Sandro Botticelli‘s final painting with a mythological subject is based on a lost painting by an ancient Greek painter Apelles. He ventured to...
Magda Michalska 6 April 2025
Madame de Pompadour As an Artist
Madame de Pompadour was the most influential mistress of Louis XV. Even though having influence over a king was no small deal, there is more to De...
Vithória Konzen Dill 4 April 2025
7 Things You Need to Know About Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Before reading on, you should know that Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a Rococo master. One can say that Fragonard was Rococo. The works of this French...
Zuzanna Stańska, Matthew Vazquez 4 April 2025
The Mysterious Master of Rococo: Watteau
Who was Watteau, one of the most prominent Rococo painters? Not much is known about his life, which makes it and his art all the more mysterious. Are...
Magda Michalska 4 April 2025
4 Most Famous Venetian Rococo Painters
Venetian Rococo played an important role in the 18th-century European art. Rococo covers the period from 1700 to 1799, also called settecento. Many...
Kateryna Martynova 4 April 2025
The Extreme North of Peder Balke
Norwegian painter Peder Balke (1804–1887) is an unjustly unknown name, obscure to most outside of Scandinavia. Classed as a Romantic painter,...
Edoardo Cesarino 3 April 2025
Arts and Crafts Principles in Interior Design: The Original Minimalists
Perhaps you have noticed a trend in recent years: people seem to crave a return to simpler times, to homesteading, homemaking, and minimalism. We...
Ledys Chemin 3 April 2025
Luxury and Mystery—The Row About Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs
There is something magical about the Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs. They are a symbol of the ultimate luxury, but also of an era long gone and...
Joanna Kaszubowska 3 April 2025
Erwin Wurm: How to See Things in a Different Way
Erwin Wurm is an artist who creates humorous art which is actually either a parody of everyday situations and known objects, or a criticism of our...
Petra Dragasevic 1 April 2025
