The illustrious Renaissance masters and their celebrated artworks have lesser-known stories behind them. The Renaissance art world abounded in tales...
Guest Author 9 October 2025
To the general public, the Italian Renaissance is the pinnacle of art history. More than 500 years on, it’s still the subject of blockbuster...
Alexandra Kiely 9 October 2025
Medusa, a creation of Greek mythology, stood as one of its most fearsome entities. In Ancient Greek, her name translates to “guardian” or...
Zuzanna Stańska 2 October 2025
Centaurs are human-horse hybrid creatures composed of dualities: human and nature, chaos and neutrality, love and violence. From ancient Greece to...
Marga Patterson 2 October 2025
There is a lot happening in this Sistine Chapel altar-wall fresco. Narratives within other narratives that contain enough imagery to last scholars a...
Rachel Witte 19 September 2025
Paul Cézanne is mostly associated with still-lifes. Characteristic square apples and oranges laid on the tables with kicked perspective are...
Zuzanna Stańska 11 September 2025
Depending on where you stand in the “what makes art” debate, you may think that art just is—it doesn’t need to be explained. But, if...
Ledys Chemin 5 September 2025
Not sure what you should read next? Here is a list of the most important art-related books you should read. Written in the previous century, they...
Roma Piotrowska 1 September 2025
Surreal adj., strange; not seeming real; like a dream Cambridge Dictionary Do you know the origin of this word? It comes from one of the most...
Tommy Thiange 1 September 2025
Abstract Expressionism is an art movement that emerged in the USA in the 1940s and 1950s. Some of its most prominent artists are Jackson Pollock,...
Errika Gerakiti 1 September 2025
Art creates emotions and, generally, you either like a certain piece of art or you don’t. But despite that, what is valid for everything else is...
Petra Dragasevic 1 September 2025
The term Post-Impressionism combines the oeuvre of many artists. We will tell you about four prominent masters who are most associated with the art...
Nataliia Pecherska 1 September 2025
