Art Stories
Fromentin Traveled to North Africa to Paint This Falconer, Basing His Work on Direct Observation Rather Than European Imagination About the Orient
Eugène Fromentin crossed to Algeria three times between 1846 and 1853, filling notebooks with what he actually saw. The Arab Falconer of 1864, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,...
Fromentin Traveled to North Africa to Paint This Falconer, Basing His Work on Direct Observation Rather Than European Imagination About the Orient
Eugène Fromentin crossed to Algeria three times between 1846 and 1853, filling notebooks with what he actually saw. The Arab Falconer of 1864, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,...
Jai Ram Painted the Maharaja of Udaipur Watching the Raslila, a Sacred Dance-Drama Where Actors Re-Enact the Divine Love Story of the God Krishna
In 1736 the Udaipur court painter Jai Ram recorded Maharana Jagat Singh II attending a Raslila, the devotional dance-drama in which costumed actors re-enact the love story of the god...
Jai Ram Painted the Maharaja of Udaipur Watching the Raslila, a Sacred Dance-Drama Where Actors Re-Enact the Divine Love Story of the God Krishna
In 1736 the Udaipur court painter Jai Ram recorded Maharana Jagat Singh II attending a Raslila, the devotional dance-drama in which costumed actors re-enact the love story of the god...
Sadiqi Bek Illustrated a Story from the Shahnameh, Firdausi's Epic Poem from 1010 That Documents the Complete Legendary History of Persia
Sadiqi Bek was a master 16th-century Persian miniaturist who captured scenes from Firdausi's monumental Shahnameh, the 1010 CE epic that remains the world's longest poem by a single author. His...
Sadiqi Bek Illustrated a Story from the Shahnameh, Firdausi's Epic Poem from 1010 That Documents the Complete Legendary History of Persia
Sadiqi Bek was a master 16th-century Persian miniaturist who captured scenes from Firdausi's monumental Shahnameh, the 1010 CE epic that remains the world's longest poem by a single author. His...
Carl Spitzweg Was a Trained Pharmacist Who Never Took a Formal Painting Lesson, Then Made Scholars and Eccentrics His Life's Subject
Carl Spitzweg qualified as a pharmacist in Munich in 1832 and never sat in a painting class. Self-taught by copying Dutch masters, he became the defining painter of the Biedermeier...
Carl Spitzweg Was a Trained Pharmacist Who Never Took a Formal Painting Lesson, Then Made Scholars and Eccentrics His Life's Subject
Carl Spitzweg qualified as a pharmacist in Munich in 1832 and never sat in a painting class. Self-taught by copying Dutch masters, he became the defining painter of the Biedermeier...
One Year After the Nazis Branded Kirchner Degenerate and Seized More Than 600 of His Works, the Painter of Czardas Dancers Took His Own Life
In 1937 the Nazi regime confiscated more than 600 works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and mocked him in the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich. One year later, the co-founder of...
One Year After the Nazis Branded Kirchner Degenerate and Seized More Than 600 of His Works, the Painter of Czardas Dancers Took His Own Life
In 1937 the Nazi regime confiscated more than 600 works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and mocked him in the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich. One year later, the co-founder of...
Norway's First Great Landscape Painter Made This Moonlit View of Dresden While Sharing a House With Caspar David Friedrich
In 1839 Johan Christian Dahl, the founder of Norwegian landscape painting, completed View of Dresden by Moonlight while living under the same roof as Caspar David Friedrich. This article traces...
Norway's First Great Landscape Painter Made This Moonlit View of Dresden While Sharing a House With Caspar David Friedrich
In 1839 Johan Christian Dahl, the founder of Norwegian landscape painting, completed View of Dresden by Moonlight while living under the same roof as Caspar David Friedrich. This article traces...