Virginia Arcadia: Natural Bridge and Why Artists Loved It
Virginia Arcadia: The Natural Bridge in American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts explores a natural wonder and its appearance in American...
Alexandra Kiely 15 April 2021
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Kyffin Williams and the Welsh Landscape
The Welsh landscapes have inspired artists, poets, and writers for generations. But, for one 20th century artist, they were more than just a subject...
Wendy Gray 15 April 2021
700th Anniversary of Dante’s Death in 15 Great Artworks
Hardly any author has been such a rich source of literary inspiration for the visual arts as Dante Alighieri. His two major works, the La Vita Nuova...
Caroline Galambosova 13 April 2021
The Landscape Paintings of Maki Na Kamura
My first encounter with Maki Na Kamura‘s art left me perplexed with what exactly the German-based, Japanese artist was intending to show her...
Michel Rutten 12 April 2021
Secrets of Ghost Photography in the 19th Century
Spirit photography, photographs that allegedly show ghosts, have always captured the eye. They are peculiar, bizarre, but above all else horrifying.
Sofia Rodriguez Cuevas 11 April 2021
Masterpiece Story: A Ride for Liberty by Eastman Johnson
The cool morning dew blew against their warm sweaty skin as the horse led them towards the free North. Stories of another life, a free life,...
James W Singer 11 April 2021
Famous Lobsters in Art
Lobsters, large marine crustaceans, have been eaten by humans since prehistoric times. They became a delicacy by the Roman period. They were also...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 April 2021
Artistic Cartography 2: The Charming History of Ancient Globes
Cartography is the production of geographical maps and globes and it has existed, more or less, since the beginning of recorded history. It could be...
Camilla de Laurentis 7 April 2021
A Hero and Mythical Creatures: Famous Spiders in Art
Spiders disturb the majority of the people. Even though they are much smaller, and thus much less powerful than us, we cannot help but fear their...
Belkıs Pesen 6 April 2021
Exploring Extremes: Art and Industry by David Stacey. Book Review
Art and industry may sound like an unlikely combination, usually we see them almost at the extremes of the spectrum of life. That is to say, Art...
Joanna Kaszubowska 5 April 2021
Victorian Feminists and Their Supernatural Powers
The Victorian feminists in 19th century England paved the way for the women’s movement across the world. The “New Woman,” as she was...
Anastasia Manioudaki 3 April 2021
Five More Things Everyone Should Know About the Victorians
The last time that we talked about the Victorian era, we looked at steam travel, Alice in Wonderland, Romanticism, the Pre-Raphaelites and Sherlock...
Sarah Mills 2 April 2021
