Jozef Mehoffer – Strange Garden
Usually on our Painting of the Week cycle we feature internationally acclaimed masterpieces. But today we wanted to feature a beautiful painting,...
Zuzanna Stańska 17 June 2017
Masterpiece Stories
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters
This panel is part of a series showing the seasons or times of the year, commissioned from Bruegel by the Antwerp merchant Niclaes Jongelinck. The...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 June 2017
Eugene Delacroix – The Death of Sardanapalus
The Death of Sardanapalus is one of the most spectacular paintings of Eugene Delacroix. It currently hangs in the Musée du Louvre in Paris but...
Zuzanna Stańska 4 June 2017
Vittore Carpaccio, Young Knight in a Landscape
Young Knight in a Landscape by Vittore Carpaccio from the collection of Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid is one of the earliest examples of a...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 May 2017
Samuel F.B. Morse, Gallery of the Louvre
Samuel F. B. Morse was an American painter who graduated from Yale University and went on to the Royal Academy in England where he studied...
Zuzanna Stańska 23 April 2017
Claude Monet, Springtime
Claude Monet's Springtime depicts his first wife, Camille Doncieux, seated serenely beneath a canopy of lilacs. The painting is presently held by the...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 April 2017
Rembrandt Self-Portrait With Curly Hair
Do you know which European museum has one of the most interesting collections of Rembrandt van Rijn's etchings? It's Rembrandt House Museum in...
Zuzanna Stańska 1 April 2017
Paul Gauguin, The Yellow Christ
Yellow Christ is a painting created by Paul Gauguin in 1889 in Pont-Aven. Now it is owned by Albright-Knox Art Gallery. [caption...
Zuzanna Stańska 26 March 2017
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Primavera by Botticelli
Primavera by Sandro Botticelli is one of the most famous paintings of the Renaissance. Its fame rests not just on its visual appeal but on the...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 March 2017
Painting Of The Week: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Rembrandt painted this group portrait of seven surgeons and the physician Nicolaes Tulp in 1632 - he was only 26 years old then. Nicolaes Tulp was a...
Zuzanna Stańska 11 March 2017
Masterpiece Story: Charles Demuth and the Figure 5
This one-sentence poem, by the American poet William Carlos Williams, was the inspiration for an incredible abstract work by American artist, Charles...
Wendy Gray 5 March 2017
Masterpiece Story: Albrecht Dürer, The Self-Portrait at 28
Albrecht Dürer loved self-portraits. In the first half of his life, he made a series of exquisite self-portraits. The earliest was made in 1484,...
Zuzanna Stańska 26 February 2017
