Dose of Art #33: Anonymous – The Plague in the Parish of Saint Jacob (1578)
I think we can all agree this painting is not in the same league as any of the other works […]
Art in detail
Art in detail
I think we can all agree this painting is not in the same league as any of the other works […]
Frans Snyders was a Flemish painter from Antwerp specializing in (dead) animals. It is a genre I don’t really like […]
After her mother claimed Andromeda was more beautiful than the daughters of the sea god Nereus, Poseidon did send the […]
The Greek/Roman Gods were a lot like humans in the way they acted; they cheated, killed, fell in love, were […]
The dramatic lighting focuses both on the shipwreck in the front (a popular theme in 19th-century marine paintings) and Mount […]
For us, The Nightmare invokes the relationship of the incubus and the horse (mare) to nightmares. The etymology of the […]
The painting depicts a Russian aristocratic wedding in the 17 century at the moment when the guests toast the bridal […]
Dante’s description of hell and its sinners in his Divine Comedy (written 1308 – 1320) has had a huge impact […]
Even without reading the title, it is obvious what is going on. The man on the right shows us the […]
This is the first of three paintings Mantegna made of St. Sebastian. The traditional belief is that he was killed […]