Masterpiece Story: Marriage A-la-Mode by William Hogarth
The 18th-century British painter William Hogarth created an insightful series of paintings about the arranged marriages of his times, entitled...
Pola Otterstein 19 March 2024
The 18th-century British painter William Hogarth created an insightful series of paintings about the arranged marriages of his times, entitled...
Pola Otterstein 19 March 2024
Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen is a huge triple portrait of the Montgomery sisters by Sir Joshua Reynolds. It thematizes aristocratic marriage...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 19 March 2024
When you think of 19th-century Russia, images of Anna Karenina with black furs and white diamonds may come to mind. The lives of the wealthy...
James W Singer 19 March 2024
Vasili Pukirev’s painting, Unequal Marriage, has a legend surrounding it. Allegedly, after looking at it all the elderly grooms refused to marry...
Elizaveta Ermakova 19 March 2024
Why did Michelangelo portray Moses with horns? Why are there monkeys in Giulio Romano’s Chamber of Giants? And why does the Nativity scene...
Arianna Richetti 18 March 2024
In a career that spanned over two decades, Jean-Paul Laurens painted some of French art’s most plaintive historical moments: two young princes...
Guest Profile 15 March 2024
We all know Florence Welch, the leader of the indie-rock band Florence + The Machine. And if you don’t, I suggest you find her cosmic music right...
Elizaveta Ermakova 15 March 2024
When we think about flying objects we usually imagine birds, planes, kites, balloons, or even UFOs! It’s easy to forget that at one point the...
Sarah Mills 14 March 2024
Socrates said that “We eat to live, not live to eat” (although his wife must have thought differently since according to legend she was terribly...
Magda Michalska 13 March 2024
Candy Bedworth 13 March 2024
Long before Julia Child published Mastering the Art of French Cooking, artists had already made the connection between food and art. But how to...
Ledys Chemin 13 March 2024
For hundreds of years, kitchens in art were the undesirable work place of unsavory maids, tucked away below the luxurious living spaces of the upper...
Abreeza Thomas 13 March 2024