Titian Revisited: Grand Old Man of the Renaissance or Dirty Old Man?
Titian’s sensuous interpretation of Classical myths of love, temptation, and punishment came together for the first time in nearly 500 years, at...
Guest Profile 13 October 2021
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Painting of the Week: Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger is one of those paintings that we know so well we tend to forget to look closer. It’s like the Mona...
Joanna Kaszubowska 4 April 2021
Painting of the Week: Diego Velázquez, The Rokeby Venus
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599–1660) was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and one of the most important painters of...
Joanna Kaszubowska 4 October 2020
Painting of the Week: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Self Portrait in a Straw Hat
Why is art history predominantly focused on male artists? Are there not enough female artists to fill textbooks? Of course there are enough, but this...
James W Singer 8 March 2020
500 years of Raphael. Exhibitions in 2020
He was sometimes known as Il divino – the divine one – for his expert mastery of space and proportion. And this year, in the 500th anniversary of...
Candy Bedworth 11 February 2020
Painting of the Week: Agnolo Bronzino, An Allegory with Venus and Cupid
This week’s painting, An allegory with Venus and Cupid by Agnolo Bronzino from the National Gallery in London, is one of the more mysterious...
Joanna Kaszubowska 2 February 2020
10 Things You Need To Know About Jan Van Eyck
Jan van Eyck was a Flemish painter active in Bruges who was born in 1390 and died in 1441. He was one of the innovators of what became known as Early...
Zuzanna Stańska 18 January 2020
