Masterpiece Story: Berthe Morisot, Woman at Her Toilette
Berthe Morisot was closely associated with French Impressionism and actively participated in seven out of eight group exhibitions. She maintained...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 January 2022
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Four Women Impressionists You Shouldn’t Forget
Impressionism is not only limited to Monet, Renoir, and Degas. There were four women Impressionists who were all the members of the same circle and...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 January 2022
Museo Egizio in Turin: Follow the Guide!
Have you ever been to the Museo Egizio in Turin, in northern Italy? Located in the old town, this institution brings together more than 300,000...
Montaine Dumont 13 January 2022
The Truth is in the Soil: The Elegiac Odyssey of Ioanna Sakellaraki
No phenomenon pertaining to human existence is as infallible and foundational as death. Expectedly, an occurrence that has this kind of defining...
Erol Degirmenci 13 January 2022
Dark Shadows of Seville in Murillo’s Paintings
Apart from fulfilling commissions for churches and noblemen’s mansions, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo painted genre scenes depicting poor children in...
Soledad Castillo Jara 13 January 2022
Spanish Bodegones of the 17th Century
Looking at a painting and getting hungry? It might be a bodegón! Here we define the genre of Spanish bodegones in the context of 17th...
Soledad Castillo Jara 13 January 2022
Masterpiece Story: Diego Velázquez, The Rokeby Venus
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599–1660) was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and one of the most important painters of...
Joanna Kaszubowska 13 January 2022
Everything You Must Know about Las Meninas
This is one of Velázquez’s largest paintings in which he worked very hard to create a complex and credible composition that would convey a...
Zuzanna Stańska 13 January 2022
John Singer Sargent’s Charcoal Portraits at The Morgan Library
John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal opened at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York in October 2019. It was the first-ever museum...
Alexandra Kiely 12 January 2022
Watch Nicole Kidman as John Singer Sargent’s Sitters
In June 1999, Nicole Kidman was featured on the cover of Vogue. She was photographed and posed in a number of John Singer Sargent re-imaginings by...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 January 2022
A Capri Romance: John Singer Sargent and Rosina Ferarra
Summer is on the horizon and most of us, having been cooped up at home for some months now, are dreaming of the holidays. Long walks along beaches,...
Charlotte Stace 12 January 2022
Beyond Madame X: Portraits by John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent is one of art history’s most famous portrait painters. He was born in Italy to American parents and received his formal...
Alexandra Kiely 12 January 2022
