Painting of the Week – The Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin
Today’s painting of the week is the Merode Altarpiece by the workshop of Robert Campin, c. 1427-32. This work is a triptych (three-panel...
Alexandra Kiely 8 July 2018
Masterpiece Stories
Painting of the Week – In the Studio by William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) was an important American artist and teacher. He also had a really cool studio. Let’s take a look inside...
Alexandra Kiely 1 July 2018
Painting Of The Week: Kamal-ol-Molk And The Perfection Of The Mirror Hall
Have you heard of the Iranian painter Kamal-ol-Molk? This is the name by which the artist Mohammad Ghaffari, who excelled in the production of...
Rute Ferreira 17 June 2018
Painting of the Week: Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi by Angelica Kauffman
Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi by Angelica Kauffman shows a pretty Roman woman and her three children. But it’s much more than that. It has an...
Alexandra Kiely 3 June 2018
Painting of the Week: Albert Bierstadt, Sunlight and Shadow
Sunlight and Shadow is a beautiful painting made by Albert Bierstadt in 1862. It shows a chapel at the Castle of Lowenburg, in Wilhelmshöhe,...
Alexandra Kiely 27 May 2018
A Study of Loneliness and Isolation: The Man in Blue
So here he is. A mysterious guy in a suit, drinking at the hotel bar. Everything is dark around him, he himself seems to be blurry and undefined...
Zuzanna Stańska 20 May 2018
Painting Of The Week: J. A. D. Ingres, Paolo and Francesca
Paolo and Francesca is painting by the French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, produced in seven known versions between 1814 and 1819. The...
Zuzanna Stańska 13 May 2018
Painting Of The Week: Lemminkäinen’s Mother by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
The Finnish National Gallery recently applied an open licence (CC0) to its digital reproductions of out-of-copyright works, joining leading...
Europeana 6 May 2018
Painting Of The Week: Werner Holmberg’s Road in Häme
The Finnish National Gallery recently applied an open licence (CC0) to its digital reproductions of out-of-copyright works, joining leading...
Europeana 29 April 2018
Painting of the Week: Portrait of A Man in Red Chalk (aka Leonardo da Vinci)
Hello, it’s me, I was wondering if after all these years (exactly 566 today) you’d like to meet… Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of a...
Magda Michalska 15 April 2018
Dietric Bouts, The Resurrection
Dieric Bouts was a Northern Renaissance artist, greatly influenced by Jan van Eyck and by Rogier van der Weyden, under whom he may have studied. He...
Zuzanna Stańska 1 April 2018
The Wounded Angel By Hugo Simberg
Two boys carry a stretcher, bearing an angel dressed in white. The angel is clearly ill – her eyes are bandaged, the wing is bloodied and she...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 March 2018
