Ravenna’s Byzantine Treasures: Mosaics in San Vitale
Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Looted in Australia
At the end of the 18th century, the British empire added Australia to its territory. Since the famous arrival of Captain Cook white people have...
Jimena Escoto 27 May 2022
Enslaved Black Models in European Art: Anonymous Objects?
Portraits of Black people are rare in European art history. Let’s be clear: they were there, in society, but they rarely made it into art, except...
Candy Bedworth 27 May 2022
Colonial Looting of African Art: A Century in Exile
Have you ever wondered how European modern artists were inspired by African art? They certainly didn’t travel to the continent. The answer is...
Jimena Escoto 27 May 2022
Jean-Baptiste Belley: Portrait of a Black French Deputy
Although representations of Black people were overlooked for a long time, current social and political movements participate to reanimate the...
Amélie Pascutto 27 May 2022
The International Dispute over Montezuma’s Headdress
2021 was the year of a double anniversary for Mexico, marking 200 years since liberation from Spanish dominion, and 500 years since the fall of...
Magda Michalska 27 May 2022
The Hudson River School: Celebrating Nature, American-Style
The Hudson River School was a uniquely American art movement – the first to develop after the country gained its independence in 1776. It was a...
Alexandra Kiely 26 May 2022
Six Female Artists of the Hudson River School
The Hudson River School was a movement in American landscape painting being the first independent artistic tradition in the country. It was very...
Alexandra Kiely 26 May 2022
Masterpiece Story: Kingston Point, Hudson River by Francis A. Silva
The wind gently blows on the water of the lapping shore, and the light gently glows on the sailcloth of the floating boat. All is gentleness and...
James W Singer 26 May 2022
10 Most Famous Rayographs of Man Ray
Man Ray is one of the most famous artists of the 20th century! Today, I would like to pay tribute to his rayographs and the inspirations he drew from...
Errika Gerakiti 25 May 2022
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5 Myths About Dada Deconstructed
Considered a pivotal moment in art history, a lot has been said about the Dada movement. Rejecting everything (even themselves!) Dada members...
Amélie Pascutto 25 May 2022
Dreams That Money Can Buy? Dadaist Cinema at Its Best
Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) is a Dadaist portmanteau movie, an unknown cinematographic masterpiece combining surrealistic and experimental...
Caroline Galambosova 25 May 2022
Listen to What Dada Is According to Jean Arp
Voices of Dada is part of a popular series of archival audio CDs exploring 20th century avant-garde and modern art. The album features interviews and...
Zuzanna Stańska, Aniela Rybak 25 May 2022
The Most Popular Artists in Cinema
In 1911 the Italian film theoretician Ricciotto Canudo defined cinema as “the seventh art”. So it’s quite natural that from its...
Arianna Richetti 14 February 2022
The Scenes You Might Know from Anime: Outstanding Prints of Hasui Kawase
Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) was one of Japan’s most important and prolific printmakers and artists of the late 19th and early-20th centuries. As a...
Isabella Hill 10 January 2022
Divine Beauty of Landscapes: California on Canvas
The beautiful state of California is home to some of the most geographically diverse topography. This makes for the most breath-taking vistas. It...
Maya M. Tola 5 April 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
Thérèse Schwartze: The Painter of the Amsterdam’s Elite
Thérèse Schwartze (1851–1918) grew up in an artistic family from Amsterdam. Her father Johann Georg Schwartze was a painter and he introduced his...
Europeana 28 April 2022
What Was It Like in the Roaring Twenties in Art and Fashion?
The Roaring Twenties was a period during which many things changed – both socially and politically. The dramatic economic growth of the decade led...
Pola Otterstein 31 July 2021
Lakshmi in Art. The Goddess of Wealth
Lakshmi is a prominent Hindu deity who is also revered by Buddhists and Jains. Her eminent position in the Hindu pantheon emanates not only from...
Maya M. Tola 12 September 2019
The Victorians: an Unexpected World of Erotica and Pornography [18+]
The subject of erotica is vast. Even reduced to only the Victorian world of erotica, it’s a challenge to write about in the space of an...
Sarah Mills 2 October 2020
The Erotic Drawings of Francesco Hayez (+18)
The Venetian painter Francesco Hayez is considered a genius of historical Romanticism. In addition to the quality and refinement of his artworks, he...
Rute Ferreira 16 May 2022
The Wounded Angel By Hugo Simberg
Two boys carry a stretcher, bearing an angel dressed in white. The angel is clearly ill - her eyes are bandaged, the wing is bloodied and she can...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 March 2018
Art from the BoJack Horseman Explained (All Seasons)
We love it when pop culture adopts, uses, and remixes art history, especially when that mixture includes a TV show! If you’re a BoJack Horseman...
Zuzanna Stańska 23 May 2022
Six Ancient Greek Sculptures Everyone Should Know
Greek sculptures have had a profound effect on art throughout the ages. Many of the styles have been reproduced and copied by some of what the modern...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 November 2020
