Alexandra Exter: Multi-Talented Cubo-Futurist in Paris
Alexandra Exter was a painter and designer of the Russian and Ukrainian avant-garde. Her work isn’t limited to just one genre or movement. She was...
Errika Gerakiti 19 March 2024
Alphonse Mucha – Art Nouveau Master
Alphonse Mucha is perhaps the artist most publicly associated with Art Nouveau. Today we explore the life and work of the Czech master. Alphonse...
Europeana 18 March 2024
Tiffany Glass and the American Art Nouveau Movement
Tiffany Glass is one of the most recognizable expressions of art to emerge at the turn of the 20th century and is a fine example of the American Art...
Maya M. Tola 18 March 2024
Zaha Hadid in 10 Designs
Zaha Hadid was undoubtedly one of the most important architects of the last hundred years. She forged her individual style and blazed a trail for...
Joanna Kaszubowska 18 March 2024
Art Nouveau Explained
Art Nouveau is one of the most distinguished styles in art. Even though its duration was brief, it quickly became a fetish of the elite. It spread...
Errika Gerakiti 18 March 2024
Art Nouveau: 10 Most Beautiful Buildings in the World
Art Nouveau was an international style in architecture and design that emerged in the late 19th century. With so many options to choose from, it is...
Rachel Witte 18 March 2024
Tove Jansson’s Life of Wonders
Best known for the Moomins from her series of novels, comic strips, and short stories, Tove Jansson was an illustrator, painter, and writer. Born in...
Natalia Tiberio 17 March 2024
Caravaggio’s Last Painting: The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula
In May 1610, Caravaggio completed The Martyrdom of St Ursula. Two months later, he was dead. We investigate the story behind his last commission,...
Catriona Miller 17 March 2024
Masterpiece Story: Três Orixás by Djanira da Motta e Silva
Djanira da Motta e Silva pictured a very unusual Holy Trinity made of three deities from the Afro-Brazilian Pantheon. They are accompanied by...
Alicja Gluszek 17 March 2024
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Donatello’s Mary Magdalene: Penitence and Salvation
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, better known as Donatello, was a sculptor born around 1386 in Florence, which is also the city in which he died in...
Soledad Castillo Jara 17 March 2024
Masterpiece Story: Virgin of Guadalupe by Sebastián Zalcedo
The Virgin of Guadalupe depicts the narrative of the Christian Virgin Mary who allegedly appeared multiple times in December 1531 before a Mexican...
James W Singer 17 March 2024
Masterpiece Story: Saint Anne
To the south of Egypt is the mysterious land of Nubia. It has a complex history due to the different states and religions that have occupied the...
James W Singer 17 March 2024
Masterpiece Story: Self-Portrait by Marie-Denise Villers
Self-Portrait by Marie-Denise Villers showcases the genius of a leading female artist of Napoleonic...
James W Singer 10 March 2024
Fauvism in 10 Paintings
Can you believe that the now well-known masterpieces created by artists such as Henri Matisse and Maurice de Vlaminck were once called “wild...
Valeria Kumekina 14 March 2024
Alice Neel: Collector of Souls
In 1950s America Alice Neel painted portraits of one of her neighbours, Georgie Arce, from childhood to adolescence.
Candy Bedworth 14 March 2024
Making Something Beautiful: An Introduction to Inuit Artist Kenojuak Ashevak
Kenojuak Ashevak (1927-2013) is the most globally recognized Inuit artist. Pioneering the way, she was among the first Inuit artists to garner...
Iolanda Munck 14 March 2024
The Frans Hals Experience at the Rijksmuseum
Frans Hals, one of the most innovative and fascinating artists in Western art history, is making international headlines at the Rijksmuseum.
Nicole Ganbold 14 March 2024
Art Nouveau Explained
Art Nouveau is one of the most distinguished styles in art. Even though its duration was brief, it quickly became a fetish of the elite. It spread...
Errika Gerakiti 18 March 2024
Exhibition Review: Accidentally Wes Anderson
Journey around the entire world through an array of vividly colourful photographical lenses at the Accidentally Wes Anderson exhibition in the heart...
Isabella Wilkinson 18 March 2024
Masterpiece Story: Harmony in Red by Henri Matisse
Sergei Shchukin once said “If a picture gives you a psychological shock, buy it. It’s a good one.” And the Matisse painting I would like to...
Zuzanna Stańska 4 March 2024
Zaha Hadid in 10 Designs
Zaha Hadid was undoubtedly one of the most important architects of the last hundred years. She forged her individual style and blazed a trail for...
Joanna Kaszubowska 18 March 2024
Florence Welch — A Modern Pre-Raphaelite Muse
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
Kiyohara Yukinobu: Sublime Female Painter of the Kano School
Not many of us have heard of Kiyohara Yukinobu, but we probably should have. She was a Japanese painter in the early Edo period (1603–1868) and one...
Candy Bedworth 13 March 2024
Unhappily Ever After: Unequal Marriage by Vasili Pukirev
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