Masterpiece Story: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is Gustav Klimt’s most significant work of portraiture. The famous Lady in Gold has as many eye-catching...
Emily Snow 6 February 2023
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Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Vincent van Gogh
Everyone knows Van Gogh’s Starry Night, or his Sunflowers, or that he cut off his ear. The name Vincent van Gogh is now a household name,...
Ledys Chemin 30 December 2022
The Medici Dynasty. Rich Sinners or Saintly Rulers?
The Medici family was definitely one of the richest dynasties in Renaissance Italy and perhaps they were the most influential patrons of the arts in...
James Wray 5 December 2022
What Is a Wunderkammer? Best Cabinets of Curiosities
The characteristic of arousing surprise for the observer is typical for the so-called Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities. These are real rooms of...
Caroline Galambosova 31 October 2022
Louisine Havemeyer and Her Modern Art Collection
A great pioneering art collector, Louisine Havemeyer (1855–1929), was the first American to patronize the French Impressionists. Together with her...
Alexandra Kiely 15 September 2022
The Dazzling Davies Sisters and Their Impressionist Art Collection
The Davies sisters grew up in a remote corner of Victorian Wales. They were religious, teetotal and never married. But these demure young women, with...
Candy Bedworth 15 September 2022
Henry VIII’s Story of Abraham Tapestries
Everyone knows King Henry VIII for having six wives and an infamous divorce that shook England’s religious core. He is renowned due to art...
Anna Ingram 4 August 2022
La Peau de L’Ours: Avant-Garde Art as an Investment
Today, historical Avant-Gardes are appreciated by every art lover, taught in every school, and worth millions of dollars, but it hasn’t always been...
Arianna Richetti 17 January 2022
Berthe Weill: The Unknown Gallerist of the Avant-Garde
Do you know the name of the first female modern art gallery owner? Berthe Weill was born in 1865 and died in 1951 in Paris but nowadays she seems to...
Maia Heguiaphal 10 January 2022
Masterpiece Story: Henri Matisse, Harmony in Red
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 29 December 2021
The Business of Tomorrow – A New Biography of Harry Guggenheim
Dirk Smillie’s new book, The Business of Tomorrow: The Visionary Life of Harry Guggenheim – From Aviation and Rocketry to the Creation of an...
Alexandra Kiely 15 November 2021
