Crowning the May Queen in Art
The May Queen is the personification of springtime. Crowned with fresh flowers, she leads her people to the Maypole for fun and frolicking. A maiden...
Candy Bedworth 10 May 2024
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Around the World in Spring Through Paintings
Spring has inspired artists from all over the world for generations. The melting away of the cold winter and burgeoning of new life in every corner...
Maya M. Tola 10 May 2024
8 Famous Tapestries from Art History Everyone Should Know
Since ancient times, tapestries have been a form of art admired by patrons. But it was during the medieval and Renaissance periods, that tapestries...
Anna Ingram 9 May 2024
Mothers Who Became Muses: Portraits of Artists’ Mothers
Every great person has a prominent woman standing behind them, and that is true as every remarkable person was a child once. The woman standing...
Valeria Kumekina 9 May 2024
About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art
About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art was initially an exhibition that marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Previously on...
Ania Kaczynska 9 May 2024
The Other Side: Women, Art And Spirituality
The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World is a deep-dive into the world of extraordinary artists translating feeling into form,...
Candy Bedworth 9 May 2024
Stendhal Syndrome: An Art Attack?
If you’ve witnessed someone fainting in front of great masterpieces, it could have been Stendhal Syndrome—an art lover’s...
Zuzanna Stańska 8 May 2024
Mona Lisa’s Illnesses
Everyone has heard about the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece at the Louvre in Paris. But you have probably never heard about… her...
Camilla de Laurentis 8 May 2024
10 Things You May Not Know About Édouard Manet
Who has not heard of Édouard Manet? The same Manet whose canvas, Le Déjeuner sur L’herbe (or The Luncheon on the Grass), ushered in a new age for...
Ledys Chemin 7 May 2024
10 Best Portraits by Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet is known as one of the most controversial artists of his time. Highly criticized for his realism and for depicting modern life scenes...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 May 2024
Édouard Manet’s Life in 5 Short Facts
Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was a French modernist painter. His paintings have been heavily critiqued and ridiculed by art juries and critics at the...
Ruxi Rusu 7 May 2024
Masterpiece Story: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère is considered Édouard Manet’s last major painting. Presented in the Paris Salon of 1882, just a year before the...
Anastasia Manioudaki 7 May 2024
