All Saints Day In Famous Paintings
All Saints Day, celebrated yesterday is also known as Hallowmas or Feast of All Saints. Occurring on November 1st of each year, it is a significant...
Pola Otterstein 2 November 2017
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FEAR NOT, When Jesus Tells You He is Coming, You Build Him a Throne
After receiving religious visions, James Hampton spent 14 years of his life preparing for Christ’s return to earth. When he died from stomach...
Rachel Istvan 4 August 2017
Painting Of The Week: Caravaggio, Saint John the Baptist
It’s Sunday and it’s time for some classics. This masterpiece is one of only a few original works by Caravaggio in American collections.
Zuzanna Stańska 30 July 2017
The Holy Story: The Driving Force of Renaissance Art
The sudden expansion in trade, banking and the textile industry in the late 1200s brought an influx of labouring classes to the cities of...
Wendy Gray 27 April 2017
Crucifixions, Bones and Gruesome Bodies
Easter is coming! But before the happy celebration and dancing with bunnies in the garden, Christians go through a Triduum, a three day period...
Magda Michalska 15 April 2017
6 Things You Must Know About Scrovegni Chapel
Scrovegni Chapel in Padua is one of the most famous Proto-Renaissance masterpieces. Decorated by Giotto di Bondone was completed in 1305 for the...
Zuzanna Stańska 31 March 2017
Most Famous Babel Towers In Art
The Tower of Babel is a Near Eastern myth that is recorded in the Genesis in Old Testament and it is meant to explain the origin of different...
Zuzanna Stańska 6 February 2017
City of Angels: Click Here If You Need One Or Two
Can you hear the rustle of draperies and the flutter of wings? It’s the angels, who have popped in to DailyArtDaily to say hi to all lovers of...
Magda Michalska 23 December 2016
About A Bad Guy Who Commissioned A Chapel To Save His Soul
Ciao ragazzi! Saluti from Italy! (Zuza is here too, but in a different place, so DailyArtDaily has basically invaded the country!). I’m doing...
Magda Michalska 17 October 2016
The Best Of Judith And Holofernes Paintings
Judith and Holofernes is one of the most feminist themes in the history of art. It is a biblical story written in the apocryphal Book of...
Zuzanna Stańska 27 September 2016
Religious Ecstasies And All That Jazz
If you think that searching for better and reinforced experience of reality is something modern, you’re wrong. Saints proved long ago that you...
Magda Michalska 20 August 2016
Weekly Art Gifs Selection – Religious Art Edition
Finally, it is FRIDAY. Like every week, we have the selection of the best art gifs we could find on internet. Today all of them are based on the...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 August 2016
