Claude Monet: Using the Home and Garden as Inspiration
Claude Monet used his beautiful home and garden in Giverny, France, as the inspiration source for many of his paintings. We can all learn from the...
Nina Relf 24 September 2022
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Welcome Autumn with Jasper Cropsey’s Colorful Landscape Paintings
Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900) was an American artist of the Hudson River School movement. He is often called “The Painter of Autumn”...
Alexandra Kiely 23 September 2022
Art Travels: Beng Mealea in Cambodia
The Beng Mealea is a large and mysterious temple in the remote Cambodian countryside – about 25 miles from the main Angkor region near the stone...
Maya M. Tola 20 September 2022
The Most Colorful Places in the World
A masterpiece is not solely an artist’s work, it can also be committed by our wonderful Mother Nature. Mountains, beaches, forests and meadows...
Anuradha Sroha 18 September 2022
The Most Colorful Cities in the World
Sometimes works of art are not objects, but places. Whether an expression of culture, tradition, or personal preference of the residents, there are...
Anuradha Sroha 18 September 2022
Duchamp: The Art of the Possible – Interview with Francis M. Naumann
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Arianna Richetti 16 September 2022
Meet Mona Lisa’s Twin!
Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world. But did you know that she has a twin? Covered with multiple layers of dark and cracked varnish,...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 September 2022
Simonetta Vespucci: The Renaissance Top Model
If you would like to spot one woman from the Renaissance who could be called a Top Model – it would be Simonetta Vespucci. Nicknamed La Bella,...
Zuzanna Stańska 13 September 2022
Flaming June or Dorothy Dene? A Muse of Frederic Leighton
In 1879, Frederic Leighton’s biographer and neighbor (that’s handy, isn’t it?), Mrs. Barrington, noticed “a young girl with a lovely white...
Magda Michalska 13 September 2022
Absinthe – Art Nouveau’s Green Fairy
Since becoming popular in late 19th century France, in the era of Art Nouveau, absinthe has always had a certain mystique. Derived mostly from the...
Europeana 12 September 2022
10 Photographic Reasons Why You Should Fall in Love with Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator. He produced a collection of provocative...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 September 2022
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Life Is Beautiful
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born on 24 November 1864 in Albi, France. He wanted to be a doctor or a surgeon but due to illness became a painter.
Petra Dragasevic 9 September 2022
