Titian’s Women Who Are In Fact The Same Woman
Titian had it all. He was so talented that people called him after Dante's Paradiso "The sun amidst small stars". He knew how to paint landscapes,...
Magda Michalska 28 August 2016
Artist Stories
4 Of Hitler’s Least Favourite ‘Degenerate’ Artists
As a person who considered himself an artist, Hitler was very sensitive to aesthetics. He hated people who did not fit to his imagined world of...
Magda Michalska 27 August 2016
More Than Fifty Shades of Grey In The Grey Life Of Romaine Brooks
WARNING: If you cannot digest sad stories about childhood, stop reading now. It won't get better in adulthood, so if you don't like such stories...
Magda Michalska 25 August 2016
Artemisia Gentileschi: The Rape Survivor And Her Revenge
Artemisia Gentileschi was one of the best Italian Baroque painters. This strong woman painted plenty of paintings of strong and suffering women from...
Zuzanna Stańska 23 August 2016
Rembrandt And His Saddest Love Story
You know Rembrandt and his portraits in hats. You know his biblical scenes and his views of Amsterdam. You could recognize his style from afar. But...
Magda Michalska 21 August 2016
11 Things You Might Not Know About Leonardo Da Vinci
You may think you know everything about the genius of Renaissance. But there are a few unknown facts about Leonardo da Vinci's life that may surprise...
Zuzanna Stańska 17 August 2016
5 Portraits By Paul Cézanne You Have Probably Never Seen Before
Paul Cézanne is mostly associated with still lifes (you can read about his fruits in one of our previous articles). Characteristic square apples and...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 August 2016
The Pornographic World of Egon Schiele’s Nudes (18+)
Egon Schiele's nudes can challenge us and our preconceptions of the artistic tradition of the "nude". He didn't paint or draw idealised goddesses. He...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 August 2016
Chagall And The Coloured Glass
When I went to see Reims cathedral last summer, I didn't expect to find Marc Chagall's stained glass windows in the centuries old church. Fascinated...
Magda Michalska 9 August 2016
Gustave Caillebotte’s Urban Intimacy
Gustave Caillebotte was a master of urban intimacy. He was a member and patron of the artists known as Impressionists, in fact he painted in a much...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 August 2016
7 Van Gogh’s Extraordinary Paintings You’ve Probably Never Seen
Exactly 126 years ago Vincent van Gogh died in his bed, suffering from a gunshot wound from two days before. It has always been assumed that he...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 July 2016
Watch This 8 Original Video Footages With Geniuses Of Modern Art
It is easy to forget that modern artist we admire where real human beings and some of them, even those who you wouldn't expect, like Monet or Renoir,...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 July 2016
