Dose of Art #74: Gaspare Traversi – Teasing a sleeping girl (c. 1760)
Traversi (c. 1722 – 1 November 1770) was a Rococo genre painter from Naples. This painting is exemplary of […]
Art in detail
Art in detail
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. […]
The story of Samson and Delilah is an ideal one to paint; it has action, drama, moral and they all […]
Rembrandt’s only known seascape and its whereabouts are unknown. On March 18, 1990, two thieves dressed as police officers, stole […]
Early art critics and historians usually ranked still-lifes somewhere at the bottom of art hierarchy as their execution was believed […]
Millet was one of the French Realists who wanted to depict their subjects truthfully without any artificiality. This scene is […]
Vernet was born in Avignon, France and went to Rome to study landscape and maritime painting. His paintings were mainly […]
To be honest, I had never heard of the American painter Thomas Hart Benton. I came across his work by […]
The Great Wave is a woodblock print; the original drawing is carved in wood which in turn is used to […]