See Rare Photographs Taken by Edgar Degas
Today is World Photography Day. On this day, August 19th, in 1839 the French government bought the patent for the daguerreotype and released it...
Zuzanna Stańska 19 August 2021
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Around the World with the National Portrait Gallery: Africa
The National Portrait Gallery in London closed its doors on June 29th, 2020. The Inspiring People gallery redevelopment works will take three years.
Joanna Kaszubowska 7 August 2021
Fashion like a Russian: Kokoshnik, a Traditional Headdress
We all know the proverb Clothes speak for men. In the Russian national costume, a headdress called Kokoshnik played a significant role: it completed...
Elizaveta Ermakova 27 July 2021
700th Anniversary of Dante’s Death in 15 Great Artworks
Hardly any author has been such a rich source of literary inspiration for the visual arts as Dante Alighieri. His two major works, the La Vita Nuova...
Caroline Galambosova 13 April 2021
Masterpiece Story: Flora by Rembrandt van Rijn
Rembrandt painted his wife Saskia van Uylenburgh as Flora, goddess of spring and flowers, three times during their relatively short but meaningful...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 February 2021
Smolyanki: The Nymphs of Russian Enlightenment
The Russian empress Catherine the Great aspired to Enlightenment ideas that propagate human intellectual power. Numerous tracts, essays, and books of...
Guest Profile 8 February 2021
The Musician, the Faun, and the Sunrise—Impressionism in Three Arts
What do you get when you add some light, some inspiration, and some musical color? You get the recipe for cutting-edge content that will change how...
Ledys Chemin 13 January 2021
The Lost Portrait of Henry VIII: Art in Service of Power
Posing proudly in front of the fascinated spectator, a monarch fixes us with his majestic gaze. Perhaps you recognized the best known portrait of...
Montaine Dumont 16 October 2020
Royal Portraits: The Art of Image
Shakespeare once wrote, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” For monarchs...
Abreeza Thomas 16 August 2020
The Government Venus: Top Five Portraits of Elisabeth of Russia
Elisabeth of Russia (1709-1761) was the most beautiful empress from the Romanov dynasty. Contemporaries called her “the sparkle of Peter the...
Guest Profile 12 August 2020
Lady Anne Clifford: Portraits of a 17th Century Feminist
During the early modern period of European history (ca. 1500-1800), women experienced different freedoms depending on where they lived and the laws...
Rachel Witte 11 August 2020
Painting of the Week: Thomas Lawrence, Julia, Lady Peel
When I saw the portrait of Julia, Lady Peel by Sir Thomas Lawrence in the Frick Collection, I was intrigued by the artwork. There is a...
Marina Kochetkova 5 July 2020
