This is the largest Gothic altarpiece in the world and a national treasure of Poland. Carved over a period of 12 years, the 15th century Veit Stoss...
Candy Bedworth 5 December 2025
While her gleaming gold body might remind you of a Star Wars droid, this masterpiece is something far more mysterious and sacred. Beneath layers of...
Jimena Aullet 5 December 2025
Tired of the forever beautification of women in Art Nouveau worlds of flamboyant ornaments and stylized flowers? Then you should be looking at Carl...
Kero Fichter 3 December 2025
Albrecht Dürer loved self-portraits. In the first half of his life, he made a series of them. The earliest is from 1484, when the artist was a...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 November 2025
Sadness and desolation fill this scene like an oppressive melancholy. The sun is dying behind the horizon as fog enshrouds the ground. Skeletal trees...
James W Singer 1 November 2025
Caspar David Friedrich was a master of romantic atmosphere. Gothic ruins, contemplative figures silhouetted against skies and morning mists were his...
Zuzanna Stańska 31 October 2025
Until 1972, the Museen zu Berlin exhibited, among other things, a teapot and its accompanying set. From above, the teapot is around 22 centimetres...
Geoffrey Bunting 27 October 2025
Does any image say primal love more than this powerful painting by Paula Modersohn-Becker? It is an artwork that includes not just children but also...
Candy Bedworth 26 October 2025
Giorgione and Titian’s Sleeping Venus is a masterpiece of the Venetian Renaissance school of painting. It explores sensual nudity through a...
James W Singer 26 October 2025
Adolf Hitler is one of history’s most notorious dictators. After coming to power as Führer of Nazi Germany, he and his followers were responsible...
Abreeza Thomas 23 October 2025
In the world of architecture, there are those who follow established styles and norms, and then there are those who break the mold and blaze their...
Joanna Kaszubowska 6 October 2025
Berlin-based Turkish visual artist Ayşe Erkmen was awarded the Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize for Sculpture in 2020. As the first woman artist to...
Merve Parla 30 September 2025
