Children Eating Grapes and a Melon, currently located in the Alte Pinakothek, is one of the most famous paintings by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. This...
Vithória Konzen Dill 23 October 2024
Is it possible to combine art and motherhood? This question never seems to go away. There is no denying that female artists do have a gendered...
Candy Bedworth 23 October 2024
Sir Joshua Reynolds, the first president of the British Royal Academy founded in 1768, was an exemplary painter. Having traveled to Italy on his...
Magda Michalska 23 October 2024
Children’s Games is one of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s most famous paintings. Just like in other works of his, it is debatable whether it was just...
Irina Diana Calu 23 October 2024
In 1879, Frederic Leighton’s biographer and neighbor (that’s handy, isn’t it?), Mrs. Barrington, noticed “a young girl with a lovely white...
Magda Michalska 22 October 2024
Born into a humble French family, Lise Tréhot (1848–1922) was an artist’s model who posed exclusively for Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919).
Anuradha Sroha 22 October 2024
We are all dreaming of summer holidays, long walks along beaches, toes in the sand, and the sound of the waves crashing against the shore. Perhaps...
Charlotte Stace 22 October 2024
Wang Ximeng’s One Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains is a masterpiece of the Northern Song dynasty and of the larger history of traditional...
James W Singer 21 October 2024
Vasily Vereshchagin was a notable Russian soldier, artist, and writer from the 19th century. He was an outspoken critic of war who reformed the genre...
Maya M. Tola 21 October 2024
David Jones (1895–1974) was an artist, poet, writer and craftsman; a name synonymous with the Modernist era but one that still remains lesser known...
Guest Profile 21 October 2024
Édouard Manet’s The Luncheon on the Grass (Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe) (1863) was one of the first works that broke away from established...
Catriona Miller 21 October 2024
Emil Nolde, German-Danish painter and printmaker, was a pioneering figure in Expressionism who shaped the movement and inspired countless other...
Errika Gerakiti, 21 October 2024
