10 Things You Need To Know About Jan van Eyck
Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (1390 – 1441) was one of the key artists of the Early Northern Renaissance. His technical brilliance and mastery...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 July 2025
Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (1390 – 1441) was one of the key artists of the Early Northern Renaissance. His technical brilliance and mastery...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 July 2025
The Arnolfini Portrait is as enigmatic as it is iconic. Painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434, it spawns a lot of speculation – over half a millennium...
Vithória Konzen Dill 9 July 2025
Come with us to visit the Van Eyck brothers, their monumental Ghent Altarpiece, and explore 500 years of intrigue, theft and revolutionary painting techniques.
Candy Bedworth 9 July 2025
Lapis lazuli, once more precious than gold, has a history of over 9000 years. The earliest artifacts found at Bhirrana, which is the oldest site of...
Irina Diana Calu 7 July 2025
Doppelgänger is a word of German origin (doppel- meaning “double,” and -gänger meaning “goer”). In old German folklore, it was believed...
Vithória Konzen Dill 29 April 2025
The Crucifixion has permeated practically every period and art movement. The desire to represent the suffering Christ enabled artists to drive and...
Elizabeth Provost 17 April 2025
When you think about it, most of the events throughout our lives take place in beds. From birth to death, beds are imbued with the ultimate...
Maia Heguiaphal 16 April 2025
There’s nothing better than going to a museum and spotting a cute pet hidden in a painting. I mean, after all, one of art’s functions is...
Marta Wiktoria Bryll 11 April 2025
Dogs are man’s best friends. And if that man happens to be a painter or a sitter for a painting, their four-legged friends must be included in them...
Magda Michalska, Aniela Rybak-Vaganay 11 April 2025
The Northern Renaissance took place in Europe north of the Alps, primarily in regions like the Netherlands, Germany, France, and England. Artists...
Anna Ingram 31 March 2025
Painting the Christian Annunciation through time. How artists represented the announcement of a virgin birth to Mary.
Candy Bedworth 24 March 2025
While the imagery of women and children is greatly depicted throughout the history of art, pregnancy is much more of a rare sight. Some blame the...
Caroline Galambosova 10 March 2025