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
Masterpiece Stories
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
Behind The Yellow Eyes Of The Blue Dog By George Rodrigue
George Rodrigue was an American artist from New Iberia, USA, known mostly for his paintings of the Blue Dog which catapulted him to a worldwide...
Zuzanna Stańska 4 March 2018
The Story Behind The Tribuna Of The Uffizi By Johan Zoffany
Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was a German-born neoclassical painter. In autumn 1760 he moved to England and started to work for a clockmaker, Stephen...
Klaudia Zelazowska 18 February 2018
Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus (c. 1410/1420 – 1475/1476) was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444, where, along with Hans Memling, he became...
Zuzanna Stańska 11 February 2018
Marc Chagall, Paris Through The Window
Audrey Hepburn in the movie Sabrina said: “Paris is always a good idea”. A similar idea must have come to the mind of Marc Chagall who...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 January 2018
Edward Hopper, New York Interior
Edward Hopper arrived for the first time to New York around the turn of the 20th century. He then studied with Robert Henri and embraced the Ashcan...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 January 2018
Piero della Francesca, Nativity
Among Piero della Francesca’s surviving paintings, the last one in chronological order is the Nativity in the National Gallery in London. The...
Zuzanna Stańska 24 December 2017
Robert Rauschenberg, Automobile Tire Print
Automobile Tire Print is one of Robert Rauschenberg’s most intriguing collaborative efforts. In 1953, the artist directed composer John Cage to...
Zuzanna Stańska 17 December 2017
Titian, Sacred and Profane Love
Sacred and Profane Love is mysterious an oil painting by Titian, probably painted in 1514, early in his career. The painting is presumed to have been...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 December 2017
Edward Hopper, Tables for Ladies
Edward Hopper painted “Tables for Ladies” in 1930 and it showed a sad little restaurant with a sad cashier and a sadder looking waitress.
Zuzanna Stańska 3 December 2017
Painting of the Week: Félix Vallotton, The Lie
Today’s painting, created by Felix Vallotton (one of my favorite artists), was painted in 1897 – but it could just as easily be a scene...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 November 2017
