An Artsy Travel to the Ancient City of Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka
Many edifices, shrines, dagobas, and colossal figures attest to the glory of Polonnaruwa, the second (and strikingly beautiful) capital of ancient...
Elsa Vallarino 6 April 2023
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Art Detective Jane Fortune: Rediscovering Forgotten Female Artists
When Jane Fortune arrived in Florence in the 1960s to study art she was left with one burning question: where are the women artists? As she often...
Natalia Iacobelli 20 March 2023
The Bible According to William Blake
William Blake (1757–1827), an English Romantic poet, painter, and printmaker, was commissioned by his patron Thomas Butts, a civil servant, to...
Magda Michalska 26 February 2023
Dream-Like Artworks: Minnie Evans’ Divine Inspiration
Folk Art, Surrealist, Visionary, Americana, call it what you will. Minnie Evans’ (1892—1987) dream-like artworks speak of another world, a world...
Rachel Witte 25 February 2023
Art Travels: Beng Mealea in Cambodia
The Beng Mealea is a large and mysterious temple in the remote Cambodian countryside – about 25 miles from the main Angkor region near the stone...
Maya M. Tola 20 September 2022
Baltasar de Echave Ibía and Masterpieces in Blue
Baltasar de Echave Ibía was a renowned Novohispanic painter from the 17th century. In fact, he belonged to an artistic dynasty. Yet, he managed to...
Jimena Escoto 23 August 2022
More than a Stone. Representation of the Kaaba by Hamra Abbas
The 17th century world map from an Ottoman book on the discovery of the Americas Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi (History of the West Indies) points to Mecca...
Magda Michalska 7 August 2022
Faith and Art: The Religious Art of William Hole
I invite you to take a closer look at a great Scottish etcher, muralist, and illustrator, William Hole (1846-1917) whom I discovered by chance when I...
Guest Author 20 December 2021
Man, Woman or Both? Meet Akhenaten, the Only Androgynous Pharaoh
If you thought that ancient Egypt had always been only about a large pantheon of gods, solid and emotionless sculptures, and masculine pharaohs, have...
Magda Michalska 20 November 2021
Art Advent Calendar of Nativities
Today December starts and that means it is the countdown until Christmas Day. To celebrate, here is an art advent calendar of nativity scenes,...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 1 December 2020
All the Prodigal Sons in Art
A quick internet search for “the Prodigal Son in art” yields some 13,000,000 results! What makes this 2,000-year-old story so compelling that...
Ledys Chemin 27 November 2020
The Erotic Potential of The Temptation of St. Anthony
Christianity has brought many popular topics to art over the centuries, yet the interpretation of a religious motif can drastically change depending...
Guest Author 11 September 2020
