Crucifixions, Bones and Gruesome Bodies
Easter is coming! But before the happy celebration and dancing with bunnies in the garden, Christians go through a Triduum, a three day period...
Magda Michalska 15 April 2017
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Anna Atkins: Photography and the Botanist
Anna Atkins turned to photography not because she loved this medium – but because it was useful to her. Atkins was a botanist, who developed an...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 April 2017
Masterpiece Story: Springtime by Claude Monet
Claude Monet’s Springtime depicts his first wife, Camille Doncieux, who is absorbed by reading in the shadow of lilacs. The painting is...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 April 2017
The (Not So) Simple Style of Emil Carlsen
Emil Carlsen was, for roughly the first forty years of his life, poor and relatively unknown. After all, he rejected the growing appeal of florid...
Anthony de Feo 8 April 2017
Art Models XXL? No Photoshop Allowed!
The recent row over the Cannes poster featuring a famous actress Claudia Cardinale, who was slimmed with photoshop by poster designers Cannes...
Magda Michalska 7 April 2017
Rembrandt Self-Portrait With Curly Hair
Do you know which European museum has one of the most interesting collections of Rembrandt van Rijn’s etchings? It’s Rembrandt House...
Zuzanna Stańska 1 April 2017
Paul Gauguin, The Yellow Christ
Yellow Christ is a painting created by Paul Gauguin in 1889 in Pont-Aven. Now it is owned by Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Paul Gauguin, Self-Portrait...
Zuzanna Stańska 26 March 2017
Edgar Degas and the Paris Milliners
When we think of Edgar Degas, we see his depictions of ballet dancers, nude bathers, and racetracks. But Degas had another favorite subject – the...
Zuzanna Stańska 18 March 2017
Women’s Day Message To All Women!
Happy International Women’s Day! I hope you are celebrating today with all women present in your lives: girlfriends, mothers, sisters, aunties,...
Magda Michalska 8 March 2017
10 Masterpieces That Paved The Way To Modernism From ‘Degas to Picasso’ in the Ashmolean Museum
From February 10th to 7th May Oxford is a place to be for all art lovers. In Ashmolean Museum, which is the oldest university museum in the world...
Zuzanna Stańska 4 March 2017
Oh Cupid, Mon Amour! Cupids Just Being Awesome
Who wouldn’t like to come across a lovely cupid one day? Who wouldn’t like to be a target of his sweet arrow? Sending you a bunch of...
Magda Michalska 13 February 2017
Mars And Venus, Sandro Botticelli (Painting Of The Week)
Valentines Day is coming. What else could we feature in our weekly series “Painting of the Week” if not a scene of Mars and Venus...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 February 2017
