Soviet Space Art: Posters of Propaganda and Progress
Here is a small selection of our favorite Soviet space posters together with some tidbits about the beginnings of the Russian space...
Marta Wiktoria Bryll 20 February 2025
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Masterpiece Story: Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps is one of the most famous and politically iconic images of European art history. However, it is a...
James W Singer 26 January 2025
How to Identify a Roman Emperor by His Beard
How many times have you walked into a museum full of statues or busts and not been able to tell one ancient sculpture from another? It can be...
Lauren Dorsey 10 January 2025
Wearing the Message: Changing the World One Outfit at a Time
From the original silk banners worn by the Suffragettes, through to slogan T-shirts, we often quite literally wear our protest message. This...
Candy Bedworth 30 December 2024
Renaissance Tapestries 101: Religious, Political, and Magical
Renaissance tapestries are the most underestimated subject in art history. As expensive and enormously large works of art, tapestries attributed to...
Anna Ingram 20 September 2024
Eyewitness to Space: The NASA Art Program
Did you know that NASA has quite a unique art collection and that they used to commission artists to document their missions and projects? Let us...
Marta Wiktoria Bryll 14 March 2024
The Medici Dynasty. Rich Sinners or Saintly Rulers?
The Medici family was definitely one of the richest dynasties in Renaissance Italy and perhaps they were the most influential patrons of the arts in...
James Wray 2 October 2023
Willem II: The Queer King of the Netherlands
Willem II ruled the Netherlands from 1840 to 1849. In modern terms he would be considered a bisexual man, as he had relationships with both women and...
Jimena Escoto 14 June 2023
The Portrait of Rome’s Decline: Bust of Decius
The turmoil of Rome’s decline in the 3rd century enclosed the 21-month reign of Decius. His tenure as emperor was not exceptionally short for the...
Guest Author 11 June 2023
Masterpiece Story: Beat The Whites With The Red Wedge by El Lissitzky
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (Клином красным бей белых!) is a 1919 lithographic Soviet propaganda poster by artist Lazar...
Zuzanna Stańska 24 April 2023
Aesthetics of Totalitarian States’ Architecture
People include the architecture of 20th century dictatorships in the category of totalitarian art. Totalitarian architecture invokes a feeling of...
Diana Sadretdinova 22 August 2022
Portraits of Catherine the Great, Empress of all the Russias
Catherine the Great (1729-1796) ruled almost the entire second half of the 18th century. Her reign was very successful on the world arena and gave...
Elizaveta Ermakova 25 March 2022
