Osman Hamdi: The First and Last Ottoman Orientalist
The first and last Orientalist painter of the Ottoman Empire is Osman Hamdi Bey. Born in modern-day Turkey, educated in Paris, and highly regarded as...
Irina Diana Calu 15 July 2025
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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 14 July 2025
Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris
The Club (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025) brings to life a glamorous world filled with creativity, friendship, and transformation, where women...
Errika Gerakiti 14 July 2025
Paul Gauguin in 10 Paintings
Paul Gauguin is a revolutionary and savage in the art of the late 19th century, an artist rejected by society. A man who quit his job at the stock...
Valeria Kumekina 14 July 2025
Art Saved My Life! An Alternative Look at Vincent van Gogh’s Mental Health
Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh is as famous for his mysterious death as for his iconic and expressive use of line and color. Did unbridled...
Candy Bedworth 14 July 2025
Klimt’s Unknown Portraits You Would Never Guess Were His
Some of Klimt’s portraits have already gained “iconic” status, one of them being his soaked in the gold portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. Yet,...
Magda Michalska 14 July 2025
Masterpiece Story: The Roses of Heliogabalus by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Lust, Gluttony, and Sloth. Three of the Seven Deadly Sins are depicted in Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s The Roses of Heliogabalus. Many other sins are...
James W Singer 13 July 2025
Abigail May Alcott Nieriker: Feminist Trailblazer and the Real Amy March from Little Women
Abigail May Alcott Nieriker was the real Amy March from Little Women. However, she was so much more than an inspiration. Born under a lucky star, she...
Jimena Escoto 10 July 2025
Olga Wisinger-Florian: The Queen of Flower Paintings from Vienna’s Golden Age
For a long time the memory of Viennese flower painter Olga Wisinger-Florian slumbered underneath a duvet of withered petals. Who knew that it was she...
Kero Fichter 8 July 2025
Masterpiece Story: The Train in the Snow by Claude Monet
Claude Monet painted The Train in the Snow in 1875. The work was not shown in the Impressionist exhibition, but it reveals Monet’s attraction to...
Zuzanna Stańska 6 July 2025
Masterpiece Story: Magpie by Claude Monet
Magpie is a masterpiece by Claude Monet that captures the poetic play of light upon a winter landscape. It is a symphony of ivory and...
James W Singer 6 July 2025
Masterpiece Story: Meules by Claude Monet
Claude Monet, the master of Impressionism, loved to paint in series. The one with haystacks (in French called meules) is his most well-known, and was...
Zuzanna Stańska 6 July 2025
