November 2017 – Page 2

Corot began his career as a landscape painter but later in life turned to portraits. The letter shows an anonymous […]

Shiskin (1832-1898) was a landscape painter and an art professor. His most famous painting Morning in a Pine Forest features […]

In 1654 Fabritius painted the Goldfinch on a small wooden panel measuring just 33.5 by 22.8 cm. On October 12th […]

The title of this painting gave the name to the Impressionist art movement, and they have a critic, Louis Leroy, […]

When Dali painted this picture, Spain was in Civil War between the Republicans and the Nationalists. The latter won when […]

This another of Goya’s murals he painted in his house Quinta del Sordo that was transferred to canvas. The painting […]

Pronkstilleven is Dutch for an ‘ostentatious’, ‘ornate’ or ‘sumptuous’ still life. Imagine yourself standing in real life before this scene. […]

Traversi (c. 1722 – 1 November 1770) was a Rococo genre painter from Naples. This painting is exemplary of […]

Ixion was a king of the Lapiths who murdered his father-in-law by pushing him into a bed of burning coals […]

November 11th is the feast of St. Martin which is celebrated in parts of The Netherland, Belgium, France, and Germany. […]