Looks Familiar? Art References in Disney Movies
For Disney’s acolytes, spotting hidden references that link different movies brings more excitement and joy than unwrapping presents. But what if...
Giordana Goretti 26 February 2025
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Fine Art in Rap Music: Eight Painters That Rappers Like To Be Compared To
Full of metaphors, double meanings, and references to popular culture – from cinema to literature, and through fine art – rap is a musical genre...
Amélie Pascutto 24 February 2025
Top 10 Weird Christian Relics
Heads, shoulders, knees, and toes… Saintly toes? The variety of saintly relics really offers it all. I hope all of this is not too morbid for you.
Marta Wiktoria Bryll 24 February 2025
Royal Portraits: The Art of Image
Shakespeare once wrote, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” For monarchs...
Abreeza Thomas 17 February 2025
Roman Floor Mosaics: Stories in Stone and Glass
Floor mosaics are one of the most well-preserved and widespread objects of Roman art. They were found throughout the Roman Empire from Britain to...
Anuradha Sroha 17 February 2025
Viennese Actionism: Between the Bestial and the Sublime
Naked bodies, violence, and destructive art. The term Viennese Actionism refers to a radical and explicit form of performance art that developed in...
Caroline Galambosova 17 February 2025
The Enneagram Types in Art—Of Amazing Painters, Paintings and Diagrams
If you are anything like us, your social media feed is probably full of quizzes! From “What is your ideal decorating style?” to “What is your...
Ledys Chemin, Giordana Goretti 17 February 2025
Maria Sibylla Merian—An Artist Who Changed Science Forever
In the 17th century, it has been widely believed that insects were just spontaneously born of mud, dirt, or rotting flesh, but that notion has been...
Nicole Ganbold 11 February 2025
Constructing Racism in Western Art – Hans Makart and the Case of Cleopatra
When Netflix cast Black actress Adele James as Cleopatra in a docu-series on the life of the famous Egyptian queen, the world went viral in a heated...
Kero Fichter 10 February 2025
Top 10 Strange and Bizarre Paintings
For every picturesque painting, there is at least one strange and bizarre counterpart. We usually gloss over the oddities, because, well, they’re...
Abreeza Thomas 10 February 2025
Raja Ravi Varma: A Fine Mixture of European Realism and Indian Sensibility
Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) was one of the most celebrated and prominent artists from India. His works combined European realism with Indian...
Anuradha Sroha 10 February 2025
Emma Amos: The Story of Postmodernist African-American Artist
Emma Amos (1937–2020) was a postmodernist artist whose thought-provoking works have left an indelible mark on the art world. Amos emerged as a...
Arianna Richetti 7 February 2025
