History Painting: “Furor Teutonicus” by “Paja” Jovanović, 1899.
Pavle “Paja” Jovanović was a very successful and prolific Serbian painter of the late 19th and early 20th century. WhileContinue Reading
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5 Fascinating History Paintings of The Storming of the Bastille.
Whenever you think of the word revolution what conjures up in your mind first? The fall of the Bastille? TheContinue Reading
History Painting: Pliny the Younger and His Mother at Miseno (1785) by Angelica Kauffman.
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, better known as Pliny the Younger, was born in 61 CE in Comum (modern-day Como). AsContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘The Munitions Girls’ by Stanhope Alexander Forbes, 1918.
Stanhope Alexander Forbes was an influential British artist whose works were well received during his lifetime. He was often calledContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘Coronation of Charlemagne’ by Friedrich Kaulbach, 1861.
German painter Friedrich Kaulbach (1822-1903) was best known as a portraitist and historical painter. At the height of his fameContinue Reading
A brief history of ‘The Dance of Death’.
Many amazing works of art have been found painted on the outside walls of cloisters, of family vaults, of ossuariesContinue Reading
Richard Samuel’s ‘Portrait in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo’ (1778).
I must confess my interest in Richard Samuel’s ‘Portrait in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo’Continue Reading
Five interesting portraits of Ada Lovelace, the first pioneer of computer science.
Everyone has heard of Bill Gates and Steve jobs, right? These two men are modern giants of computer science. ButContinue Reading
Portrait of a Queen: Elizabeth’s Turbulent road to the Throne.
One of the most famous images of Queen Elizabeth I is ‘The Coronation portrait’, which is held at the NationalContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘A Roman Emperor (Claudius)’ by Lawrence Alma-Taedema, 1871.
The third Emperor of the Roman Empire was a troubled youth named Gaius Julius Augustus Germanicus. We know him betterContinue Reading
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