Painting of the Week: Masaccio, The Tribute Money
There are many artists and paintings which I return to over and over again. Artists like Giotto, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Vermeer, van Eyck, Cassatt,...
Rachel Witte 9 June 2019
Masterpiece Stories
Painting of the Week: John Singer Sargent, Simplon Pass: The Lesson
Many people know John Singer Sargent for his beautiful oil paintings of turn-of-the-century high society. However, he also made many lovely...
Alexandra Kiely 26 May 2019
Painting of the Week: Tarsila do Amaral, Abaporú
Abaporú: a painting that was a birthday gift from a wife to a husband, from Tarsila do Amaral to Oswaldo de Andrade. This work was a symbol of the...
Alicja Gluszek 12 May 2019
Painting of the Week: Albert Eckhout, Mameluca Woman
For readers in the northern hemisphere, spring has just begun. For those of us in the southern half of the globe, it’s the fall that presents...
Rute Ferreira 28 April 2019
Painting of the Week: Raphael, Transfiguration
The Transfiguration was the last painting created by Raphael. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, the later Pope Clement VII (1523–1534) and...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 April 2019
Masterpiece Story: Irises by Vincent van Gogh
One year before his death on March 30, 1890, Vincent van Gogh chose to enter Saint Paul de Mausole, an asylum in Saint-Rémy, originally a...
Zuzanna Stańska 31 March 2019
Painting of the Week: Giovanni Panini, Interior of a Picture Gallery with the Collection of Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga
This painting shows a truly spectacular assembly of artworks. Would you be surprised or excited to learn that it was once somebody’s real art...
Alexandra Kiely 24 February 2019
Painting of the Week: Robert Delaunay, Rythmes
The picture was inspired by the round shapes that marked the return of the artist to orphism and study of harmony in painting. For Delaunay,...
Clinton Pittman 16 February 2019
Masterpiece Story: Woman with a Parrot by Gustave Courbet
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 10 February 2019
Masterpiece Story: The Bathers by Paul Cézanne
When little Paul was born on 19th January 1839 nobody could expect that he will revolutionize painting with developing a unique style and influence a...
Kate Wojtczak 20 January 2019
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Goethe in the Roman Campagna
Last week the Städel Museum in Frankfurt posted on Instagram a painting from their collection with a funny quote: “Having a bad day? Always...
Kate Wojtczak 13 January 2019
Painting of the Week: Giotto di Bondone, Adoration of the Magi
January 6 in the Christian calendar is a day devoted to the Magi. According to the Bible, Three Wise Men from the East come to Bethlehem to visit...
Kate Wojtczak 6 January 2019
