One Final Masterpiece: 7 Last Paintings from Great Masters
Hippocrates said that life is short, and art is long. Every great artist left behind iconic works of art that have lived long after their death. Some...
Sam Malone 11 December 2023
Hippocrates said that life is short, and art is long. Every great artist left behind iconic works of art that have lived long after their death. Some...
Sam Malone 11 December 2023
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is Gustav Klimt’s most significant work of portraiture. The famous Lady in Gold has as many eye-catching...
Emily Snow 11 December 2023
The first thing that might come to mind when you think about a police station is probably not the view you would get when you arrive at Urania Police...
Sabrina Kurmann 11 December 2023
Let’s take a virtual journey to seven exceptional mosques around the world, each a magnificent architectural masterpiece. Role of...
Maya M. Tola 11 December 2023
In 1911 the Italian film theoretician Ricciotto Canudo defined cinema as “the seventh art”. So it’s quite natural that from its birth cinema...
Arianna Richetti 11 December 2023
The first and last Orientalist painter of the Ottoman Empire is Osman Hamdi Bey. Born in modern-day Turkey, educated in Paris, and highly regarded as...
Irina Diana Calu 11 December 2023
Whistler’s 1871 painting Arrangement in Grey and Black No 1 might not sound familiar. As Whistler’s Mother, on the other hand, it has entered...
Catriona Miller 10 December 2023
You’ve probably heard of the Impressionists: Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and Camille Pissarro. These guys are not only known for...
Abreeza Thomas 10 December 2023
Dear John Singer Sargent, the world has changed substantially since the year 1856 when you were born, however, your legacy has stood enduringly. You...
James W Singer 10 December 2023
To a 21st-century viewer, the portrait of Gabrielle d’Estrées might seem homo-erotic. However, pictured with her sister, the Duchess of Villars,...
Anna Ingram 10 December 2023
Is there something more iconic for Paris than its bistros (after the Eiffel Tower, of course)? Let’s have a closer look at the artistic...
Camilla de Laurentis 9 December 2023
In the first quarter of the 20th century, Paris was the center of artistic and intellectual activity. Artists, actors, dancers, poets, writers,...
Errika Gerakiti 9 December 2023