Art Stories
Josephson Painted Music Soothing a King's Madness a Decade Before Schizophrenia Ended His Own Career in 1888
In 1878 the Swedish painter Ernst Josephson painted David and Saul, the biblical scene of music relieving a king's madness. Ten years later, in 1888, Josephson suffered a schizophrenic breakdown...
Josephson Painted Music Soothing a King's Madness a Decade Before Schizophrenia Ended His Own Career in 1888
In 1878 the Swedish painter Ernst Josephson painted David and Saul, the biblical scene of music relieving a king's madness. Ten years later, in 1888, Josephson suffered a schizophrenic breakdown...
The Blind Beggar in Preti's Canvas Was Byzantium's Greatest General, Humbled by a Legend of Blinding That Historians Say Never Happened
Mattia Preti's 1660 Belisarius Receiving Alms shows Byzantium's most successful general begging blind in the street. No source from his lifetime records a blinding; the tale first appears in a...
The Blind Beggar in Preti's Canvas Was Byzantium's Greatest General, Humbled by a Legend of Blinding That Historians Say Never Happened
Mattia Preti's 1660 Belisarius Receiving Alms shows Byzantium's most successful general begging blind in the street. No source from his lifetime records a blinding; the tale first appears in a...
A Grieving Widow Commissioned Jordaens to Glorify Her Dead Prince, a Job He Inherited Only Because Rubens and Van Dyck Were Already in Their Graves
After Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, died in 1647, his widow Amalia van Solms turned a hall at Huis ten Bosch into a painted memorial. The centerpiece went to Jacob...
A Grieving Widow Commissioned Jordaens to Glorify Her Dead Prince, a Job He Inherited Only Because Rubens and Van Dyck Were Already in Their Graves
After Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, died in 1647, his widow Amalia van Solms turned a hall at Huis ten Bosch into a painted memorial. The centerpiece went to Jacob...
Rembrandt Painted Hundreds of Portraits but Only One Known Still Life, and He Filled It with Two Dead Peacocks
Rembrandt van Rijn produced roughly 300 paintings, most of them portraits and biblical scenes, yet only one known still life survives: Still Life with Peacocks, c. 1639. This article examines...
Rembrandt Painted Hundreds of Portraits but Only One Known Still Life, and He Filled It with Two Dead Peacocks
Rembrandt van Rijn produced roughly 300 paintings, most of them portraits and biblical scenes, yet only one known still life survives: Still Life with Peacocks, c. 1639. This article examines...
Eckersberg Stood in Copenhagen as British Rockets Set the City Burning in September 1807, Then Painted the Firestorm He Had Witnessed from Across the Harbor
In September 1807 the British navy bombarded neutral Copenhagen with incendiary rockets. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, then a young student at the Royal Danish Academy, watched the city burn from Christianshavn...
Eckersberg Stood in Copenhagen as British Rockets Set the City Burning in September 1807, Then Painted the Firestorm He Had Witnessed from Across the Harbor
In September 1807 the British navy bombarded neutral Copenhagen with incendiary rockets. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, then a young student at the Royal Danish Academy, watched the city burn from Christianshavn...
Wierusz Kowalski Painted Wolves So Obsessively That He Kept a Tame One at His Munich Home as a Living Model
Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, the Polish star of the Munich School, built his career on wolves, and accounts of his Munich years say he kept a tamed one at home as a...
Wierusz Kowalski Painted Wolves So Obsessively That He Kept a Tame One at His Munich Home as a Living Model
Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, the Polish star of the Munich School, built his career on wolves, and accounts of his Munich years say he kept a tamed one at home as a...