Artworks

The Death of Socrates (1787) by Jacques-Louis David is a poignant and impassioned portrayal of the handing over of Socrates’...

The Salvator Mundi (c. 1499-1510) painting has become one of the most mysterious and investigated pieces of art in the...

Damien Hirst, the renowned artist from England, has uniquely jumped on the NFT wagon with his new NFT currency initiative,...

Christina’s World (1948) by Andrew Wyeth, who was an American artist, is a famous painting of a woman in a...

In this article, we will be discussing Eric Gill’s BBC statue, Prospero and Ariel (1932). Due to revelations about the...

Ever seen the 2017 biographical movie Loving Vincent and immediately regained your appreciation for the artist Vincent van Gogh? Given...

Pablo Picasso is most recognized for being a Cubist, although he spent his whole life exploring different mediums and techniques...

You may have come across a few iconic Monet artworks from the famous French Impressionist painter, Oscar-Claude Monet. Parisian-born founder...

The Red Vineyard (1888) is an oil painting by the post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh. It has quite the reputation, reportedly...

What is a mural painting? Murals have existed for as long as people have, providing a type of significant evidence...

Sculptors that produce lifelike sculptures, for the most part, want to portray our bodies and lives as they are. Artists...

The Roman Empire is one of the most important empires in history as it spans hundreds of years and over...

This infamous banana wall art piece, known as Comedian, was seen on every social media platform upon its release. With...

Often done as watercolor paintings, botanical illustration art captures the shape, color, and specifics of many plant species. Botanical art...

The statue of David by Michelangelo is among the most easily recognized sculptures in the world. The Guild of Wool...

Why did Picasso have a Blue Period and what prompted Pablo Picasso’s famous Blue Period? The artist and individual underwent...

From Prehistoric cave paintings to the ritualistic carvings of ancient societies, humans have always had a desire to create art. ...

When “prehistoric cave art” comes to mind, you may have thoughts of the first cave paintings to be banal, distressed,...

From 1833 until 1836, a series of landscape paintings titled Course of Empire by Thomas Cole was produced. The Course...

“Abandon every hope, all ye who enter here” – a quote from one of the most influential pieces of Italian...

The Victorian era was characterized by a preoccupation with fairies and the paranormal, which led to a specific style of...

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, by Damien Hirst, also known as The Shark, was...

Why were the Campbell’s Soup paintings created and what year did Warhol complete Campbell’s Soup Cans? Campbell’s Soup by Andy...

Few subjects enthralled the famous Impressionist, Claude Monet, quite like water lilies. Between the years 1896 and 1926, it is...

The Origin of the World (1866) by Gustave Courbet is probably not what you think it is. The title is...

From friendship to feuds between the church and royal families, The Ambassadors (1533) by Hans Holbein is a painting steeped...

The Venus of Willendorf, also called Woman of Willendorf or Nude Woman, is a female figurine found in 1908 at...

In the Sistine Chapel, hands become more than just hands. The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo is one of the...

The Gates of Paradise by Lorenzo Ghiberti depicts several Old Testament texts through a sequence of sculpted, gilded panels that...

In this article, we look at the Spanish artist Francisco Goya’s Black Paintings, which he painted as murals in his...

Have you got an old painting that has been hanging on the walls of your family home for years, and...

Who is Bacchus and what is the painting of Bacchus meaning? Bacchus by Caravaggio, the Baroque master from Italy, was...

Rhythm 0 was the title given to Marina Abramović’s 1974 art performance. In the performance art installation, Marina Abramović stood...

Characters from classical Greek gods paintings are inextricably linked to modern culture and life. From classic Greek mythology paintings to...

Nocturne in Black and Gold - The Falling Rocket (1875) by James Abbott McNeill Whistler is an artwork that typifies...

Claude Monet, also called the “Father of Impressionism”, is one of the most well-known serial painters of his time, remembered...

Many Auguste Rodin sculptures have achieved great fame, such as The Thinker (1880). However, unlike The Thinker, which epitomizes thought...

Imagine looking up and seeing a whirling world of figures, all engaged in different gestures and postures, poised and near...

Pablo Picasso is arguably the most important artist in 20th-century art history. Picasso's art displayed a diversified array that was...

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp is a 1917 readymade artwork that is comprised of a porcelain urinal marked "R. Mutt". Duchamp...

Today, we will be looking at the famous painting of a woman known as the Girl with a Pearl Earring...

The Swing (c. 1767-1768) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard is a famous Rococo painting depicting a woman on a swing, seemingly wild...

Starry Night Over the Rhône (1888) is one of Vincent van Gogh’s depictions of the nighttime and its colorful entrancement...

China is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, with a continuous history that spans thousands of years. With...

Diego Rivera’s famous flower painting The Flower Carrier from 1935 is a colorful rendering of a burdened man carrying what...

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck appears to be an intricately depicted yet simple representation of a rich businessman...

The peculiar sculpture known as Manneken Pis was created by Hieronymus Duquesnoy the Elder and features a little boy urinating...

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” This quote is from Michelangelo di...

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (c. 1818) by Caspar David Friedrich has become an iconic painting depicting the depths...

The famous bust of Nefertiti, made from limestone, is a statue representing the pharaoh of Egypt Akhenaten's Royal Wife. Because...

The Caesar Augustus statue, better known as the Augustus of Prima Porta, portrays the Roman Empire’s first emperor. The Caesar...

Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker statue is a bronze sculpture set on a stone pedestal. The Thinker statue by Auguste Rodin...

La Primavera (c. 1477-1482) by Sandro Botticelli is a mysterious and majestic mythological tempera painting that has been pondered over...

Imagine a painting of a nude descending a staircase, but only, this nude looks more robotic and calculated rather than...

The French Revolution is, without a doubt, one of the most influential events in all of social history. During this...

Picasso’s Guernica painting is considered by many to be one of the most important pieces from the art of wartime....

When Leo Stein saw the painting Woman With a Hat by Henri Matisse, he reportedly said it was “the nastiest...

The Renaissance is the time period following the Middle Ages, spanning from the 15th to the 17th century. The word...

“I’ll paint what I see – what the flower is to me, but I’ll paint it big and they will...

When people talk about Donatello, David is the sculpture that first comes to mind. They could be referring to one...

The goal of Baroque art is for us to be able to connect to the picture with our physicality as...

The Cursed Woman painting by Octave Tassaert could possibly be considered a 19th-century version of pornographic imagery due to its...

The sculpting arts have lasted as one of the most prominent forms of human expression throughout the world. Types of...

Imagine falling in a downward flurry from a Heavenly place to land on a rocky surface, banished, outcast, and fuming...

Adam and Eve art comprise one of the most common themes in art history; there are hundreds of Adam and...

The Tree of Life by Gustav Klimt was created during the artist's Golden Period and is one of his most...

Liberty Leading the People (1830) by Eugène Delacroix is considered one of the most revolutionary paintings from French history and...

Did you know that the world’s tallest statue is in fact the Statue of Unity? But exactly how tall is...

Counted among the Seven Wonders of the World, pilgrims from all across the Mediterranean came to worship the statue of...

The Mérode Altarpiece (c. 1425) by Robert Campin is a triptych oil painting on a wooden panel that depicts the...

“In that privileged place, reality and the sublime dimension almost come together”. This is how Salvador Dalí described his painting,...

Myron’s Discobolus (460–450 BC) was a bronze sculpture of the Classical period in Greek art that portrayed a discus thrower....

Michelangelo's statue of Moses was created sometime between 1513 and 1515 and was originally intended to be a component of...

The Soul of the Rose (1908) painting by John William Waterhouse is a visual testament to qualities we know and...

Produced in the Hellenistic art period, the Venus de Milo sculpture is believed to have been created by Alexandros of...

Giovanni Strazza’s The Veiled Virgin statue depicts a veiled bust of the Virgin Mary. The precise date of creation of...

The Christ the Redeemer statue, the giant Jesus statue in Brazil, is also known as the Cristo Redentor in Portuguese....

The famous Marie Antoinette family portrait by Élisabeth Vigée le Brun has been known as a national treasure in France...

Submerged in the waters of San Fruttuoso, Italy, one can find Guido Galletti’s Christ of the Abyss statue. The original...

It is a painting of many panels and tales, it has stood the test of Medieval times and underhandedly passed...

Louise Bourgeois’ spider artwork is known as the Maman Sculpture. The giant spider artwork is made from stainless steel, bronze,...

The Old Guitarist (1903) was made towards the end of what has come to be known as Picasso’s Blue Period....

Frida Kahlo’s double self-portrait, The Two Fridas (1939), illustrates the artist’s fraught relationship with heartbreak, self-identity, gender, and sadness. It...

A black square bearing the ideals of a new reality, it is something beyond the world of representational reality and...

Since Modernism's inception, certain questions have been expressed concerning the nature of and the distinction between two-dimensional art and abstract...

Artfully evocative of the human condition, on so many levels, yet strikingly simple, the Song of the Lark painting by...

Black and white painters use the absence of color to maximize impact. The stark contrast between black and white has...

Paris has always been the significant birthplace of art movements that changed the face of art and history for centuries,...

The Dance by Matisse was produced in 1910 for Sergei Shchuken, a businessman from Russia. Matisse’s The Dance features a...

Upturning the notions of convention and traditional modes of portrayal, Pablo Picasso’s famous Young Ladies of Avignon, not to be...

Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sculpture, The Rape of Proserpina (also known as El Rapto de Proserpina) portrays the mythical abduction of...

The Romanticism movement was a force that dominated Europe during the late 1800s. It was an artistic, intellectual, and literary...

The Venus of Urbino painting was produced by Titian from Italy in about 1534. Titian’s Venus of Urbino painting portrayed...

Autumn is an extremely picturesque season, and therefore it is no surprise that autumn painters feel compelled to capture the...

The famous bedroom painting by Vincent van Gogh was first painted in 1888 when the Dutch artist lived in the...

Art is constantly around us, yet not all of them become famous artworks. But what sets famous art paintings apart...

Piet Mondrian is one of the most popular modern artists to date. He set the foundations for Abstract art as...

It is an image that is not so easy to forget, instilling not only fear and tragedy but the traumatic...

The famous Vincent van Gogh, who painted The Potato Eaters in 1885, held his painting in high esteem after it...

The Renaissance period is recognized for its fervent artistic contributions to European history. A period that constituted countless exceptional artworks,...