Chilling Beauty: Exploring Europe’s Bone Churches
From the ancient period through the 18th century, European Catholics and Orthodox Christians displayed and maintained bones of the deceased to honor...
Julia Bourbois 26 June 2025
WTF Art History
What Is a Wunderkammer? Best Cabinets of Curiosities
The characteristic of arousing surprise for the observer is typical for the so-called Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities. These are real rooms of...
Caroline Galambosova 23 June 2025
Movie Scenes Staged as Famous Paintings
In 1911 the Italian film theoretician Ricciotto Canudo defined cinema as “the seventh art”. So it’s quite natural that from its birth cinema...
Arianna Richetti 23 June 2025
Masterpiece Story: A Summer Day by Gerda Wegener
This Pride Month, we invite you to explore a compelling work by Gerda Wegener, an artist whose dazzling contributions to the early 20th-century art...
Alessia Caldana 15 June 2025
Masterpiece Story: Wrestlers by Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins was one of the greatest Realist painters of 19th-century America. Wrestlers explores the interesting dynamic between sports and...
James W Singer 15 June 2025
Masterpiece Story: Once Upon a Time by Keith Haring
Keith Haring’s Once Upon a Time mural is a 4-walled orgiastic display of penises, eager orifices, splashing ejaculate, and extended tongues tangled...
Theodore Carter 15 June 2025
Masterpiece Story: Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) by David Hockney
David Hockney is an English artist born in 1937. He was a leading force in the 1960s Pop Art movement and a great innovator, considered, to this...
Ruxi Rusu 15 June 2025
Sex, Love, and Death in Ancient Peru: Erotic Gallery—Museo Larco
Hidden underground for hundreds of years, depictions of sex, love, and erotica in Andean pre-Columbian art are now proudly displayed in the Erotic...
Bruno Guerra 13 June 2025
The Boxer at Rest—Defeated Hellenistic Athlete
Coming face-to-face with a piece of art you’ve loved for years is a thrilling, exciting and oftentimes overwhelming experience. Such was the case...
Nadine Waldmann 11 June 2025
There Were Really Hot Guys in Ancient Greece: The Barberini Faun
Drunk, sleeping men are rarely, if ever, beautiful and sexually appealing, but this is not the case with this really sexy faun from ancient Greece.
Marta Loza 11 June 2025
Let’s Talk about Courbet’s Origin of the World
In the 19th century, the display of the nude body underwent a revolution – and a massive critique. Gustave Courbet, one of the main scandalous...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 June 2025
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 June 2025
