Dose of Art #84: Caravaggio – Narcissus (c. 1587-1599)
Narcissus was the son of the river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope and known for his beauty. He had told […]
Art in detail
Art in detail
Narcissus was the son of the river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope and known for his beauty. He had told […]
Wood belonged to the American Regionalist movement, which focused on the human condition and the values of a rural environment […]
Like many of Ovid’s stories, the one about Actaeon and Diana is about fate being unjust and cruel. While hunting […]
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. […]