Masterpiece Story: Street, Dresden by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
The swirling crowds and electric lights of the modern city. This is the subject of today’s Masterpiece Story, created by one of the greatest...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 July 2024
The swirling crowds and electric lights of the modern city. This is the subject of today’s Masterpiece Story, created by one of the greatest...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 July 2024
Indeed, when we look at this painting, everything is very Hopper-ish – the circulating sensation of sadness and loneliness, the weariness of...
Zuzanna Stańska, 21 July 2024
Sofonisba Anguissola is known for her self-portraits and portraits of Spanish royalty. But her most provocative painting is perhaps The Game of...
Anna Ingram 19 July 2024
Fede Galizia’s beautiful A Glass Compote with Peaches, Jasmine Flowers, Quinces and a Grasshopper is one of Italy’s first-ever still life...
Alexandra Kiely 18 July 2024
Who nowadays doesn’t appreciate Gustave Courbet‘s striking realism? We all do, but as happens with many geniuses, Courbet was not appreciated by...
Magda Michalska 17 July 2024
Rembrandt is less known for his mythological paintings, but their visual impact matches any of his religious images and secular portraits. The...
James W Singer 15 July 2024
Gustave Courbet, the enfant terrible of French 19th-century art, did everything he could to save himself in the memory of the contemporary art...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 July 2024
A fair-skinned woman, nude. Mouth open in either shock, rage, or maybe even disgust, as she emerges from a well. One leg is already draped over the...
Kristin Urban 14 July 2024
Saturnino Herrán’s Our Ancient Gods is a masterful painting of Mexican Modernism from the early 20th century. It evokes the strength, dignity, and...
James W Singer 14 July 2024
Rembrandt van Rijn married Saskia van Uylenburgh in 1634. They were together for only eight years before she died after childbirth, probably from...
Catriona Miller 12 July 2024
The Night Watch painted by Rembrandt van Rijn is a monumental canvas displayed today in the “Gallery of Honour” of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam,...
Zuzanna Stańska, Nicole Ganbold 12 July 2024
Since its creation, at the end of Gustav Klimt’s life, Lady with a Fan was controversial. The piece was shown to the public only three times,...
Giordana Goretti 12 July 2024