
Zaporozhtsy by Ilya Repin
"A portrait must be at once a painting and a careful evaluation of the face" Legend has it that around ...
Read all"A portrait must be at once a painting and a careful evaluation of the face" Legend has it that around ...
Read all“Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even ...
Read allThis portrait is done with pastels! A portrait of a neatly dressed young girl gracefully holding a tray ...
Read allThere has always been something enigmatic about Hieronymus Bosch and his shockingly abundant allegorical ...
Read all“I do as I can." There are some works of art that have always been surrounded by mystery. This is ...
Read all“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.” When it comes to celebrity status ...
Read all“It is the treating of the commonplace with the feelings of the sublime that gives to art its true power.” One ...
Read allMassacre of the Innocents c. 1611 – 12, has always been a popular theme in the visual arts, particularly ...
Read all“Proudest and most arrogant man in France” * The pioneering artist of the 19th century, Realist painter ...
Read allOne of the most beloved paintings by the Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn, The Polish Rider is also a ...
Read alla.k.a. The Happy Accidents of the Swing, 1767 Jean- Honoré Fragonard's The Swing was essentially a commission ...
Read allThis is one of 5 paintings titled The Five Senses painted in 1617 - 1618 by two Flemish masters Jan Brueghel ...
Read all"The most joyful thing I know is the peace, the silence that one enjoys in the woods or on the tilled ...
Read all"The beautiful is always bizarre." Next to the portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte - Napoleon I on his ...
Read allImagine training for 20-25 years before you were ever allowed to take up a real brush and paint? Filling ...
Read allAnyone who has ever come across this painting is unlikely to forget the emotional imagery and a feeling ...
Read allWith pedantic care Jean-Léon Gérome painted his models and every detail of the setting - (click on the ...
Read allHere the artist captured a moment from Ovid's Echo and Narcissus a well known fable of a beautiful ...
Read allGirl with a Pearl Earring is perhaps one of Jan Vermeer's best known works the world over. The magnificent ...
Read allA master painter of the Northern Baroque Peter Paul Rubens, born in 1577, is famous for imbuing his portraits ...
Read all3 boats, Mt. Fuji and the ferocious curve of the great wave that threatens to consume anything that comes ...
Read allAnd the blind seer said to his mother, "If he but fail to recognize himself, a long life he may have, ...
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