Jean-Pierre Isbouts - one of National Geographic’s best-selling authors- has been studying and following Leonardo da Vinci’s paper trail for years. He’s written about the Italian’s career and legacy, ...
This interview is conducted by Michael Haiden, a Researcher in Philosophy at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. He is passionate about practical ethics, political philosophy and history of ideas.
“I paint myself because I’m so often alone and because I am the subject I know best,” Frida Kahlo. Born and raised in Mexico to a German father and a Pacific Islander mother, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) ...
The model for The Angel with the Serpent was Evelyn de Morgan’s brother Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering.
Sandro Botticelli, born Alessandro di Mariano Filipe around the year 1445, spent the majority of his life living and working in Florence. He was very well known and celebrated during his lifetime and ...
In 1956, the celebrations marking the 750 th anniversary of the city of Dresden enabled the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum to renovate and redesign a number of its rooms, some of which still bore the traces ...
Vincent van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters (1885) stands as one of his most powerful early works, a raw portrayal of peasant life in the Netherlands. While the painting’s dimly lit interior, rough textures, ...
If you're an art student, you understand how dynamic art education is! Art is a learning that comes in various forms. For a long time, there has been a great value in art education in enhancing ...
Haring was born in Pensylvania, USA in 1958. From an early age, he loved to draw and create images, copying cartoon images that he saw around him. After leaving school, Haring attended the Ivy School ...
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was an American artist from the state of Wisconsin who specialised in depictions of enlarged flowers, skyscrapers and landscapes. She has been recognised at the “Mother of ...
During the attack, he repeatedly hit the statue, tore her clothes off, and according to witnesses, placed the crown of the Virgin Mary on his own head. The 15th-century statue sustained minor damage.
The viewer’s emotional response is ten times stronger when they are face to face with the painting in the museum. Researchers used electroencephalograms (EEGs) to reveal that real artworks, including ...