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 19 June 2025
#J. M. W. Turner
10 Paintings That Will Bring Sunshine to Your House
Throughout history, artists have used light and shadow in their work to create the illusion of a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional...
Ruxi Rusu 27 May 2025
Masterpiece Story: Rain, Steam and Speed by J. M. W. Turner
J. M, W, Turner’s Rain, Steam, and Speed is a masterpiece of Victorian Romanticism infused with hopes, fears, and reminisces. It catapults the...
James W Singer 18 May 2025
Turner at 250: The Best Anniversary Exhibitions
The year 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Mallord William Turner, arguably Britain’s greatest landscape painter.
Catriona Miller 23 April 2025
QUIZ: How Well Do You Know J. M. W. Turner?
Sandra Juszczyk 23 April 2025
Masterpiece Story: Fighting Temeraire by J. M. W. Turner
Fighting Temeraire by British Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner is a seascape that expresses poetic and patriotic...
James W Singer 22 April 2025
J. M. W. Turner in 10 Paintings
If one wanted to impress their friends at dinner with facts about the highly unique painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, I would point them to...
Coleman Richards 22 April 2025
10 Things You Should Know about the Victorians
What do we think of when we ponder the Victorian era? I, for one, always think of steam trains, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Sherlock Holmes,...
Sarah Mills 9 April 2025
Art on Screen: 12 Movies about Artists Worth Seeing
Whether troubled or exciting, extraordinary or perfectly average, the lives of artists are an endless source of inspiration for cinematographers.
Edoardo Cesarino 17 February 2025
The Poetry in Painting—Turner’s Ovid in Exile
This petite (9.5 x 12.5 cm, 3 3/4 x 4 in.) oil on canvas by J. M. W. Turner contains big things: big landscapes, big stories and big skies. It is an...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 18 December 2024
Art History 101: Everything You Need to Know About Romanticism
At the end of the 18th century, artists began to reject the ideas of the Enlightenment which prioritized reason above all. They wanted to consider...
Jimena Escoto 8 November 2024
