January 2018 – Size Of Art

Meunier was a painter an sculptor who started out working on religious themes. When he visited the Belgian mining areas […]

“Ultramarine blue is a colour noble, beautiful, and perfect beyond all other colours, and there is nothing that could be […]

Few public commissions by Sassoferrato exist, but he left over 300 paintings. His work was very popular in the 19th […]

When asked what the painting was about Homer replied: “I regret very much that I have painted a picture that […]

Almost 35 years before yesterdays self-portrait, Renoir painted Bal du Moulin de la Galette. It depicts a typical Sunday at […]

Renoir was 69 years old when he painted this portrait of himself. In 1907, he had moved to the warmer […]

When asked to make a double portrait of Lord Sydney (on the left) and Colonel John Dyke Acland (on the […]

For some reason, yesterdays painting Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement by Eugène Delacroix inspired other painters to make their own version […]

Delacroix was a Romantic painter with a longing for the exotic. He visited Spain and Morocco shortly after the French […]

Like yesterday’s painting, this one is dated at around 1565. Veronese placed the story of Hercules -who had to […]