A Perfect World of Perfect Women in James Tissot’s Paintings
This title might be a little controversial. In fact, critics find the term demimondaine to be more accurate when describing Tissot’s series of...
Magda Michalska 15 October 2021
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The Enfant Terrible of Renaissance Italian Art: 500 Years of Tintoretto in Venice
Tintoretto, the enfant terrible of Renaissance Italian Art has now his moment. Born 500 years ago in Venice, is now celebrated on various exhibitions...
Zuzanna Stańska 13 October 2021
Titian Revisited: Grand Old Man of the Renaissance or Dirty Old Man?
Titian’s sensuous interpretation of Classical myths of love, temptation, and punishment came together for the first time in nearly 500 years, at...
Guest Profile 13 October 2021
Why Is the New Paris Bourse de Commerce Museum Worth Visiting?
As of May 2021, Paris now has a new art museum to call its own. Located only 500 meters from the Louvre, the Bourse de Commerce Museum is dedicated...
Vithória Konzen Dill 9 October 2021
Women Artists of Venice: A New Initiative in Research and Conservation
Soon, the historical female artists of Venice will finally get their due! A new initiative, Women Artists of Venice, aims to restore artworks by at...
Alexandra Kiely 8 October 2021
Unhappily Ever After: Unequal Marriage by Vasili Pukirev
Vasili Pukirev’s painting Unequal Marriage has a legend about it: allegedly, after looking at it, all the elderly grooms refused to marry their...
Elizaveta Ermakova 7 October 2021
Paintings within Paintings: Time to Go Meta in the Art World
A few weeks ago, the art world celebrated the complete restoration of Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window. It turns out that on...
Jimena Escoto 3 October 2021
The Ultimate Question: Why Should You Learn About Art?
Art creates emotions and, generally, you either like a certain piece of art or you don’t. But despite that, what is valid for everything else is...
Petra Dragasevic 1 October 2021
The Best of North Carolina Museum of Art: Staff Picks
North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is an art museum in Raleigh, North Carolina, housing a collection of works from antiquity to the present. Its...
Nicole Ganbold 29 September 2021
The Troubadour Style: Fantasized Rediscovery of the Middle Ages in Painting
The rediscovery of medieval civilization is one of the most striking French intellectual curiosities of the later 18th century and early 19th...
Montaine Dumont 28 September 2021
A Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition in the Mountains: Cantacuzino Palace in Romania
In 2016, an interesting project took place in Busteni, a town in the mountains of Romania. Sculptors from various countries gathered to work on the...
Luciana Craciun 27 September 2021
The Hidden Meanings of Nature in Čiurlionis’ Paintings
What’s nature like outside your window today? Is it calm and relaxing, or maybe there’s a frightening storm swaying the trees? Perhaps you are...
Guest Profile 22 September 2021
