Artworks

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,...

If you're acquainted with the works of the famed Dutch artist, you've probably seen Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings. Sunflowers...

Imagine the most brilliant blue color covering a canvas. Imagine standing in front of this canvas not knowing what to...

When we think of Vincent van Gogh, we are probably reminded of his famous paintings The Starry Night (1889), The...

“Put Impression” is what Claude Monet said when they needed a title for the catalog for the first Impressionist exhibition...

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini is the focal point of the Cornaro Chapel's white marble sculptural...

A self-portrait with a twist – a man, the ocean, and a green apple - of course, we are talking...

The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault, currently located at the Louvre Museum, is regarded as a seminal work...

The Aphrodite of Knidos Statue is a sculpture of Aphrodite, a Greek Goddess. The Aphrodite sculpture is among the first...

Rembrandt's self-portraits were a significant component of his output. These paintings by Rembrandt numbered around one hundred self-portraits. But why...

Vincent van Gogh was from the Netherlands and is regarded as a very influential figure within the post-Impressionist movement. Vincent...

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a well-known Neo-Expressionist during the 1980s. He made his artistic stamp on the walls of New York...

The Stone Breakers by Gustave Courbet is a famous Realism painting created in 1849. The Stone Breakers (1849) portrays two...

No one wants to be at sea and see a great wave about to crash onto them, toppling their boat....

View of Toledo by El Greco is among the first landscape artworks in the art of the Western world. and...

It is one of Édouard Manet’s famous paintings and one that has stirred up quite some controversy among the conservative...

What is a Triptych? Triptych artworks are typically divided into three separate panels which can usually be closed and opened...

If you ever visit France, you will be delighted to visit the Le Café La Nuit otherwise, Café Van Gogh,...

A pioneer of Impressionism, Claude Monet painted some of the most beautiful and fleeting scenes of everyday life, but he...

We all have nightmares that leave us feeling terror-stricken, they can be dreadful things waking us up in the early...

Sometimes everything feels so overwhelming you just want to scream. We can all relate to these primal feelings of being...

The Lascaux cave system is a group of caves in southwestern France. The Great Hall of Bulls paintings can be...

Henry Ossawa Tanner was known as one of the most famous African American artists of the 19th century and paid...

Everyone loves a lazy Sunday afternoon, lounging, lying, and staring into the distance. In this article we take you to...

The Apocalypse has been a common narrative in art history for many centuries, especially during the period that was marked...

Artists have always been eccentric characters with wild imaginations throughout time. However, due to most works being commissioned, they rarely...

Imagine walking into a class filled with ballerinas practicing and chatting with one another completely unaware that you walked in....

Victorian paintings communicate the hopes and desires of a mighty England redefining itself in shifting tides. Victorian artwork encompasses movements...

The Holy Trinity by Masaccio is regarded as one of the most iconic artworks of the Renaissance period. The Holy...

The Nike of Samothrace statue is named after the island on which it was found, situated to the north of...

The almost full-length portrait titled The Blue Boy painting was initially titled Portrait of a Young Gentleman and “unveiled” at...

It is not often you find a pack of dogs sitting around a table playing poker, however, that is the...

Rising in popularity during the interwar period, the Art Deco art style proved to be a very influential movement in...

Luxury, decadence, theatricality– these are a few words that come to mind when thinking back to the artwork that came...

Pop art first began to emerge in the mid-1950s in both the United Kingdom as well as the United States...

Although her dreams of being a doctor were never realized, Frida Kahlo became a healing force for so many through...

The Greek sculpture, the Spear Bearer Doryphoros is world-renowned and portrays a well-built warrior. The Doryphoros of Polykleitos initially featured...

It has been described as one of the “most controversial” paintings from the 19th century, you know that famous painting...

Famous Expressionism artworks are venerated in art history, owing primarily to the mysterious individuals that arose from the movement at...

His name has been used for the medical condition called pseudo-goiter and he has been called Modi, which is the...

Wassily Kandinsky’s artworks are among the most influential of the abstract art genre. Kandinsky’s abstract art mirrored the belief that...

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is considered a giant in the history of art. The Dutch artist was one of Holland’s...

Albrecht Dürer’s paintings are regarded as some of the finest artworks of the Northern Renaissance period in Germany. Albrecht Dürer’s...