Love Story

Masterpiece Story: April Love by Arthur Hughes

Today’s Masterpiece Story is about April Love—Arthur Hughes’ most celebrated artwork that perfectly embodies the Pre-Raphaelite...

Arianna Richetti 15 February 2026

Masterpiece Story: The Declaration of Love by Jean-François de Troy

Jean-François de Troy’s The Declaration of Love is a masterpiece of Rococo genre art featuring a universal moment of anguish and...

James W Singer 15 February 2026

Masterpiece Story: The Lovers by René Magritte

You must have already encountered René Magritte’s series of paintings on lovers marked by his unmistakable surreal style and renowned wit.

Zuzanna Stańska 15 February 2026

QUIZ: Famous Art Couples

Zuzanna Stańska 14 February 2026

QUIZ: Love in Art

Anastasia Manioudaki 14 February 2026

10 Paintings About Love from the Dutch Golden Age

Love is everywhere in 17th-century Dutch painting, but it rarely announces itself loudly. Instead, it is subtle and nuanced, seen through half-open...

Tom Anderson 12 February 2026

How Disney’s Sleeping Beauty Was Inspired by the Late Medieval Tapestry

In Charles Perrault’s 17th-century literary world, knights, dragons, and spellbound princesses persisted centuries after the topic diminished. As...

Anna Ingram 23 January 2026

Paint Me Like One of Your French Girls: The Life and Business of Agostina Segatori

Agostina Segatori’s face is most widely recognized in the works of famous artists between 1860 and 1887. Her Italian features inspired many...

Yasmin Ozkan 22 December 2025

Dalí and Gala—The Love Story

Today, we present the story of Salvador Dalí and Gala—his wife, without whom Dalí would have never become an icon of modern art. Carl van...

Zuzanna Stańska 10 December 2025

The Revolutionary Love Affair of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz

The American painter Georgia O’Keeffe is best known for her abstract representations of flowers and desert landscapes. American photographer Alfred...

Mary Margaret Swets, 10 December 2025

Women in Rossetti’s Life and Art: Muses and Lovers

Anyone who knows of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood will remember their style by the representation of a very particular type of woman—those with...

Bolor Jargalsaikhan 10 December 2025

An Avant-Garde Love Story: Goncharova and Larionov’s Romance

At the dawn of the modern avant-garde, two uncompromising young artists, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, found in each other both a lifelong...

Magda Michalska 10 December 2025