Online Art Travels: An Ultimate Banksy City Guide
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 3 June 2024
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Masterpiece Story: Fortune Teller by Georges de La Tour
The Fortune Teller is one of Georges de La Tour’s early masterpieces. The Baroque oil painting, once questioned by the Louvre Museum for its...
Anna Ingram 31 May 2024
Masterpiece Story: Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
Why is art history predominantly focused on male artists? Are there not enough female artists to fill textbooks? Of course, there are enough, but the...
James W Singer 28 May 2024
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and Amazing Women in Her Portraits
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and women in her portraits should be a reference for every art-lover. The French painter – also known as Madame Le Brun...
Pola Otterstein 28 May 2024
Stroll Through Paris with Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper is known as one of the premier recorders of American mid-century life. Or mid-century malaise might be a better way to put it:...
Louisa Mahoney 23 May 2024
Claude Monet and Masterpieces Painted in Series
Claude Monet was famous for his series of paintings. He repeatedly painted the same subject in different lights, at different hours of the day, and...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 May 2024
Painter’s Biggest Fear: The Blindness of Claude Monet
The eyes of an artist put to the service of art can reveal to us an unspeakable world that is very present around us. But what does this world, this...
Christopher Michaut 21 May 2024
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Claude Monet
Born on November 14, 1840, Claude Monet stands as one of the principal trailblazers in the realm of French Impressionist art. His dedication to the...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 May 2024
Did You Know That Monet Was a Master of Caricatures?
If I say, Claude Monet, you say waterlilies! Impressionism! Monet or Manet? Well, this time we would like to talk to you about a part of Monet’s...
Giordana Goretti 21 May 2024
Joséphine de Beauharnais: Patron of the Arts
Joséphine de Beauharnais was born in Martinique as Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie. She evolved into the sophisticated and cultured...
Maya M. Tola 20 May 2024
Masterpiece Story: Nike of Samothrace
Nike of Samothrace is the masterpiece of an unknown Hellenistic artist. While the artist’s story may be unknown, the statue’s story is as complex...
James W Singer 16 May 2024
How to Look Fabulous: Rococo Women Beauty Guide
How to look fabulous? That is the question! Let’s refer to the most splendid and opulent period of history: the 18th century. The Enlightenment era...
Kateryna Martynova 15 May 2024
