18th century – Size Of Art

Carl Hofverberg was a Swedish painter whose most famous work is this one. In fact, he didn’t make any other […]

The painting once belonged to the French critic Philippe Burty, whose friends called it “a marvel, this little picture, in […]

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

Kauffman was a Swiss neo-classical painter who learned to paint from her father. She is known for her history paintings […]

Goya made a series of paintings for the four seasons. For winter he chose a snowstorm. Nothing romantic about it; […]

Almost 50 years after he made ‘Bowl of Plums’ we saw yesterday, Chardin made this self-portrait. By this time the […]

Chardin began still life paintings about 1725. Like the genre scenes, they portrayed kitchen utensils and food in simple, rustic, […]

The Venetian Republic commissioned this painting to replace a lost painting by Tintoretto. It was one of the last public […]

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

Early art critics and historians usually ranked still-lifes somewhere at the bottom of art hierarchy as their execution was believed […]