Enslaved Black Models in European Art: Anonymous Objects
Portraits of black people are rare in European art history. Let’s be clear: they were there, in society, but they rarely made it into art, except...
Candy Bedworth 2 December 2021
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Jean-Baptiste Belley: Portrait of a Black French Deputy
Although representations of black people were overlooked for a long time, current social and political movements participate to reanimate the...
Amélie Pascutto 2 December 2021
10 Photographic Reasons Why You Should Fall in Love with Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and...
Zuzanna Stańska 24 November 2021
Masterpiece Story: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Divan Japonais
Divan Japonais is a lithograph poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec which was an ad for a café-chantant of this exact name. The poster is like a...
Zuzanna Stańska 24 November 2021
In a Cabaret with de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Posters
On the outskirts of Paris, a working-class district with cabarets and dance halls called Montmartre became the bohemian center of the city.
Magda Michalska 24 November 2021
Masterpiece Story: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Aristide Bruant in his Cabaret
In the 1890s Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was one of a group of young avant-garde artists whose color lithography was a vehicle for innovative...
Zuzanna Stańska 24 November 2021
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Portraying Misia Natanson in a Theater
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec is famous for his portrayals of Paris nightlife: cabarets, theaters, and brothels. He showed us a world of decadence and...
Alicja Gluszek 24 November 2021
My Great-Grandmother Tamara de Lempicka: An Interview with Marisa de Lempicka
You may not know her name but you surely know her works. Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) is the icon of a modern woman, the epitome of Art Deco. She...
Lauren Kraut 22 November 2021
These Churches Will Make You Believe In God
Churches are fascinating buildings where time seems to stand still. Allow us to lead you by the smell of incense into the dark Gothic interiors.
Magda Michalska 18 November 2021
Masterpiece Story: Claude Monet, Meules
Claude Monet, the master of Impressionism, loved to paint in series. The one with haystacks (in French called meules) is his most well-known, which...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 November 2021
Claude Monet and Saint Lazare Train Station
Between 1853 and 1870 Paris has been renovated and modernized by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann. This prefect of the...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 November 2021
René Lalique, The Master Jeweler of Art Nouveau
René Lalique (1860-1945) was a French jeweler and one of Art Nouveau’s most renowned craftsmen. Trained in Paris and London, Lalique was unusual...
Europeana 10 November 2021
