Vasari and his legacy
Article by Jimena Escoto The society and the educational system of today prepare us to be specialists. Either you are a doctor, or a mathematician, or an artist. Hardly, though not impossible, you’ll find someone…
Leda, the swans and the Italian Renaissance
Article by Jimena Escoto It is well known that the Renaissance was a period of rediscovery of classical culture. As a result, artists started depicting mythological scenes, even though they never forgot Christian themes. With…
How the Renaissance came to be?
Article by Jimena Escoto Have you ever wondered how did we go from the sculpted columns in the Gothic cathedrals to Michelangelo’s David?
The Medici and the Renaissance artists
Article by Jimena Escoto The Renaissance must have been a wonderful time to live in, if you were wealthy, of course. And to live in Florence at that time meant two things. The first one…
The Life of Michelangelo
Article by Rachael Concessio You may have never picked up a paintbrush before and know next to nothing about fine art. However, the name Michelangelo is not lost on you. To this day, he remains…
Through the eyes of the Old Masters – Alexander the Great
Article by Jimena Escoto So few personalities of the history of humanity have transcended as much as Alexander the Great has. He lived 2,300 ago and he still is one of the greatest conquerors ever.…
The Suffering Artist – Worn Out by Vincent Van Gogh
Article by Anders E. Johnson From the collection of Van Gogh’s earlier works, the drawing Worn Out, completed in 1882, resonates the earnestness of the beloved artist Vincent Van Gogh. We are confronted with a…
The Slumbering Damsel – Dan Les Bois by Albert Anker
Article by Anders E. Johnson Completed in 1865, the painting, Dan Les Bois, by the celebrated Swiss artist, Albert Anker, is a striking example of the serene naturalness found within the realism art movement.
Daydreamer – Required Reading by Carl Larsson
Article by Anders E. Johnson We are onlookers to a window of another age. A time when things were simpler, as some might argue, and when life still held that ‘old-world charm’ and fuzzy-warm sentiment.…
Reading Between the Lines – Salvator Mundi by Albrecht Dürer
Article by Anders E. Johnson Albrecht Dürer’s Salvator Mundi, although not completely finished, is in its own right a marvelous display of the draftsman work of arguably one of the most skilled artists the German…
