Masterpiece Story: Princess Olga Orlova by Valentin Serov
Late Tsarist Russia evokes images of great social inequality in respect of health, wealth, and happiness. In addition, it evokes images of extreme...
James W Singer 17 January 2021
Masterpiece Stories
The Story of Vincent van Gogh’s Bedroom and Its Three Versions
The Bedroom(s) are among the most famous paintings of Vincent van Gogh. Why the plural? There are three similar paintings of the same title. All...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 January 2021
Painting of the Week: Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
The bejeweled woman from the mosaic, holding the measuring tool for the Roman foot, is identified by the restored Greek inscription as Ktisis. She is...
Zuzanna Stańska 18 October 2020
Painting of the Week: Firs Zhuravlev, A Fashionista Wife
Firs Zhuravlev’s realistic paintings show all aspects of Russian life. And we can imagine the scene from the picture A Fashionista Wife in the...
Elizaveta Ermakova 20 September 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
Painting of the Week: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
A ploughman is plowing the lands, a shepherd is watching over his sheep, an angler is fishing. The ships are sailing to unknown lands, a partridge is...
Zuzanna Stańska 1 March 2020
Painting of the Week: Francisco Toledo, Frog
This is an unusual watercolor diptych by the late Mexican artist Francisco Toledo, who died this year. The work encompasses two totally opposite...
Alicja Gluszek 24 November 2019
Masterpiece Story: View from Cookham Bridge by Stanley Spencer
Stanley Spencer described the village of Cookham, as a ‘village in heaven’. In his unique paintings, Spencer often intertwined Cookham with his...
Hannah Demaine 22 September 2019
Painting of the Week: Miguel Covarrubias, The Mexican Street Scene
An ordinary, rather empty street in the Mexican countryside. Two people. In the center, a woman with closed eyes, covered by a blue shawl. Pensive.
Alicja Gluszek 14 July 2019
Painting of the Week: Masaccio, The Tribute Money
There are many artists and paintings which I return to over and over again. Artists like Giotto, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Vermeer, van Eyck, Cassatt,...
Rachel Witte 9 June 2019
Painting of the Week: Tarsila do Amaral, Abaporú
Abaporú: a painting that was a birthday gift from a wife to a husband, from Tarsila do Amaral to Oswaldo de Andrade. This work was a symbol of the...
Alicja Gluszek 12 May 2019
Painting of the Week: Albert Eckhout, Mameluca Woman
For readers in the northern hemisphere, spring has just begun. For those of us in the southern half of the globe, it’s the fall that presents...
Rute Ferreira 28 April 2019
