Anna Bilińska’s Parisian Career and Tragic Life
Read the story of Anna Bilińska, a Polish painter who spent her life in Paris. Discover her moving portraits and the fascinating story of her...
Magda Michalska 21 October 2025
#19th Century
Masterpiece Story: The Luncheon on the Grass by Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet’s The Luncheon on the Grass (Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe) (1863) was one of the first works that broke away from established...
Catriona Miller 20 October 2025
The Radical and Rebellious Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur's vivid animal portraits made her one of France's richest 19th century artist. Her unconventional personal life is fascinating!
Candy Bedworth 17 October 2025
Mary Cassatt: Motherhood in 5 Paintings
Mary Cassatt was the only American painter who exhibited with the Impressionists. Although she never married or had children of her own, she is best...
Ruxi Rusu 15 October 2025
Masterpiece Story: Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she became friends with Edgar Degas...
Zuzanna Stańska 15 October 2025
Masterpiece Story: Rainbow at Pontoise by Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro has an interesting portfolio of paintings. His works are divided between cosmopolitan views of Paris and countryside views of...
James W Singer 12 October 2025
The Mystery of Vincent van Gogh’s Death
Vincent van Gogh’s death occurred in the early morning of 29 July 1890, in his room at the Auberge Ravoux in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise in...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 October 2025
Radical Harmony: Neo-Impressionism at the National Gallery in London
The National Gallery’s major fall exhibition showcases Neo-Impressionism from the Kröller-Müller Museum. There are lots of dots but are there...
Catriona Miller 2 October 2025
Masterpiece Story: The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault
Théodore Géricault completed The Raft of the Medusa when he was 27, and the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. It is a direct precursor...
Clinton Pittman 26 September 2025
Masterpiece Story: Opéra Garnier
When we talk about the beautiful sights of Paris, many first think of the obvious ones—the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum, and the Notre-Dame...
Nikolina Konjevod 26 September 2025
Auguste Préault in 10 Romantic Sculptures
People once thought Romanticism belonged only to painting, not sculpture. Auguste Préault challenged that belief with bold creativity. The...
Errika Gerakiti 26 September 2025
Eugène Delacroix in 10 Paintings: Poetry, Passion, and Power
Early 19th-century French art was a battle between cool, crisp, precisely observed Neoclassicism and Romanticism’s passion for emotion, drama,...
Catriona Miller 26 September 2025
