Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a Dutch-born British painter who became one of the most renowned artists of the historic genre of the Victorian era. Antique motifs had a great impact on his work. Most of Alma-Tadema’s paintings were...

Hard as it may be to believe, medieval art has become one of the most “memable” types of art on the internet. Yes, you have read it correctly: artworks that were created hardly in the most pleasant...

Pastel is an art medium with unique properties that distinguish it from other artistic media. Pastel art differs from oil painting with light textures, and from watercolor with color density. It is vibrant, rich, and airy at...

How many times in life have you seen the artwork in the picture? Many, one or two, or never? The represented painting is the Italian Baroque masterpiece by Michelangelo Merisi, also known as Caravaggio. So many people...

The era of modern and contemporary art has turned the perception and understanding of aesthetics upside down. New rules and notions adapted and replaced century-long traditions, which was a necessary evil that allowed the industry to grow...

Pictorialist photography was an art movement that appeared in the 1880s and existed till the 1920s. Pictorialist photographers were inspired by the work of Pre-Raphaelites, impressionists, painters of the Barbizon school, and Austrian symbolists,...