Masterpiece Story: Flora by Rembrandt van Rijn
Rembrandt painted his wife Saskia van Uylenburgh as Flora, goddess of spring and flowers, three times during their relatively short but meaningful...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 February 2021
Baroque
Adriaen Brouwer, Painter of Emotions
The work of the Flemish Baroque painter Adriaen Brouwer excels in innovation and daring. His folk scenes, often showing drunkards and smokers in...
Michel Rutten 23 October 2020
Did You Know? Haarlem in the Dutch Golden Age
The city of Haarlem in the Netherlands was one of the flourishing art centers of the 16th and 17th centuries. Today, you can walk the streets of the...
Rachel Witte 20 October 2020
HERE: Black in Rembrandt’s Time. The Rembrandt House Museum Decolonizes
Afro-Amsterdam was not like what you think it was! During the 17th century, the African community lived amicably with the local community in the...
Urvi Chheda 4 August 2020
Rembrandt’s Light—Dulwich Picture Gallery
Rembrandt’s Light exhibition at The Dulwich Picture Gallery celebrates the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death. The focus of this...
Joanna Kaszubowska 5 November 2019
Sixth Sense? Allegories of Senses in Painting
How to show our sensual experiences visually? The human senses made out one of the most appealing subjects for European painters, especially that...
Magda Michalska 26 June 2019
How to Become an Old Master? Turn on the Youtube First!
I can’t draw, I can’t paint, I can’t sculpt or do pottery. But I can watch videos on Rijksmuseum Youtube channel called...
Magda Michalska 13 June 2019
Hell Hath No Fury. The Merry Murderess of Early Modern Art
Hell hath no fury like a murderess scorned and, boy, you better believe it! If you were to take a moment and google ‘murder in art’ your...
Tony Heathfield 30 April 2019
The Explosive Life and Death of Carel Fabritius
There is very little known about the life of Carel Fabritius. The scholars didn’t really get a chance to delve into archival materials about...
Magda Michalska 16 May 2018
Women’s Place Is In The Kitchen: The Story of Dutch Genre Painting
One of the unquestionable masters of Dutch genre painting was Jan Vermeer. However, today I want to present two less known painters: Peter de Hooch...
Magda Michalska 11 January 2018
Was Nicolas Poussin a Baroque Artist?
Nicolas Poussin is often considered a representative of French Baroque, as he worked in the first half of the 1600s. Yet, his paintings are so...
Magda Michalska 16 November 2017
Annibale Carracci: The Inventor of Baroque Painting?
When did Mannierism give way to a new style? Was it with Caravaggio‘s dramatic lighting or Rubens‘s opulence? Can we distinguish a...
Magda Michalska 27 September 2017
