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
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 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’s Springtime depicts his first wife, Camille Doncieux, who is absorbed by reading in the shadow of lilacs. The painting is...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 April 2017
Do you know which European museum has one of the most interesting collections of Rembrandt van Rijn’s etchings? It’s Rembrandt House...
Zuzanna Stańska 1 April 2017
Yellow Christ is a painting created by Paul Gauguin in 1889 in Pont-Aven. Now it is owned by Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Paul Gauguin, Self-Portrait...
Zuzanna Stańska 26 March 2017
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
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
Valentines Day is coming. What else could we feature in our weekly series “Painting of the Week” if not a scene of Mars and Venus...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 February 2017
The Holy Night by Correggio also known as Nativity or the Adoration of the Shepherds, was commissioned by Alberto Pratoneri for his family chapel in...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 December 2016
The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh is one of those iconic painting everyone recognizes. But not everyone knows it’s story! Today we will try...
Zuzanna Stańska 3 December 2016
Gustav Klimt, Two Girls with an Oleander, 1892, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Who doesn’t like Secession or Gustav Klimt? This...
Zuzanna Stańska 30 October 2016
We start a new series of articles where every week we will present you a story about one particular piece of art. If you have any requests, please...
Zuzanna Stańska 23 October 2016