The Colors of Pablo Picasso
What’s your favorite color? Why? Have you ever tried getting to know someone better by asking this question? It can fill an awkward silence in...
Christopher Michaut 25 October 2021
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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
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
Anna Bilińska’s Parisian Career and Tragic Life
If you think your life is taking wrong turns and it feels like you’re sailing against the wind, read on. The story of artist Anna Bilińska,...
Magda Michalska 27 September 2021
All You Need to Know About the Lascaux Cave
Located in southern France, the Lascaux Cave houses some of the most famous prehistoric cave paintings, dating to approximately 15,000 BCE. The cave...
Vithória Konzen Dill 23 September 2021
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: With Love through Art
If two people are born on precisely the same day, they must be destined to meet. He was Bulgarian, she was French. They met when he was called in to...
Magda Michalska 21 September 2021
Online Art Travels: An Ultimate Banksy City Guide for 2021
Nowadays everyone knows Banksy. They actually only know his name and his art, since he still remains anonymous. Many wrote and write about him, his...
Camilla de Laurentis 7 September 2021
Japonisme: Western Fever for Japanese Art and Culture
During the mid 19th and 20th centuries, Western art saw the birth of Japonisme. The term was coined by Philippe Burty in 1872 and it refers to the...
Jimena Escoto 27 August 2021
Vanishing Pyramid: JR’s Art at the Louvre Museum
In 2016, the urban photographer “JR” decided to visually remove the famous pyramid known as the modern symbol of the Louvre. Three years...
Montaine Dumont 23 August 2021
See Rare Photographs Taken by Edgar Degas
Today is World Photography Day. On this day, August 19th, in 1839 the French government bought the patent for the daguerreotype and released it...
Zuzanna Stańska 19 August 2021
The True Star of Early Photography: Virginia Oldoini
Virginia Elisabetta Luisa Antonietta Teresa Maria Oldoini- in short, Countess of Castiglione- was a real celebrity of her times. I imagine that in...
Zuzanna Stańska 17 August 2021
Choose Your Destination: Best Vacation Spots for Art History Lovers
As we are all in the full swing of summer and ready to explore, we look at the best destinations to visit for art history lovers during vacation. Get...
Nina Relf 13 August 2021
