Art Stories
Mark Twain Called Titian's Venus of Urbino the Foulest and Vilest Picture the World Possesses
In his 1880 travel book A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain called Titian's Venus of Urbino the foulest, vilest, obscenest picture the world possesses. He wasn't condemning the art. He was...
Mark Twain Called Titian's Venus of Urbino the Foulest and Vilest Picture the World Possesses
In his 1880 travel book A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain called Titian's Venus of Urbino the foulest, vilest, obscenest picture the world possesses. He wasn't condemning the art. He was...
A Student Played the Music Bosch Painted on a Damned Soul in The Garden of Earthly Delights: How a Hidden Renaissance Score Went Viral
When a music student noticed sheet music tattooed onto a tortured figure in Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights, she transcribed a 600-year-old melody from Hell itself. Her discovery...
A Student Played the Music Bosch Painted on a Damned Soul in The Garden of Earthly Delights: How a Hidden Renaissance Score Went Viral
When a music student noticed sheet music tattooed onto a tortured figure in Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights, she transcribed a 600-year-old melody from Hell itself. Her discovery...
The Blood-Red Sky in Munch's The Scream May Be a Real Volcanic Sunset He Watched From Oslo
In 1893, Edvard Munch witnessed a sunset that turned the Norwegian sky blood-red. This article explores how a volcanic atmospheric phenomenon became expressionism's most famous scream.
The Blood-Red Sky in Munch's The Scream May Be a Real Volcanic Sunset He Watched From Oslo
In 1893, Edvard Munch witnessed a sunset that turned the Norwegian sky blood-red. This article explores how a volcanic atmospheric phenomenon became expressionism's most famous scream.
Klimt Pressed Real Gold Leaf Into The Kiss and Hid an Uneasy Truth About Intimacy Inside It
Gustav Klimt pressed real gold leaf, silver and platinum into The Kiss between 1907 and 1908. Beneath the shimmer sits a quieter, more unsettling reading of intimacy. Here is what...
Klimt Pressed Real Gold Leaf Into The Kiss and Hid an Uneasy Truth About Intimacy Inside It
Gustav Klimt pressed real gold leaf, silver and platinum into The Kiss between 1907 and 1908. Beneath the shimmer sits a quieter, more unsettling reading of intimacy. Here is what...
Caillebotte Was Rich Enough to Buy His Friends' Paintings, and That Is Why Impressionism Survived
Gustave Caillebotte inherited a fortune and used it to buy paintings by Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Degas when the market ignored them. His purchases and his 1894 bequest carried Impressionism...
Caillebotte Was Rich Enough to Buy His Friends' Paintings, and That Is Why Impressionism Survived
Gustave Caillebotte inherited a fortune and used it to buy paintings by Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Degas when the market ignored them. His purchases and his 1894 bequest carried Impressionism...
Olympia Caused Such Outrage in 1865 That Guards Had to Protect It From Visitors With Canes
In 1865, Édouard Manet's Olympia provoked such fury at the Paris Salon that guards were posted to protect it from visitors wielding canes. This is the story of the painting...
Olympia Caused Such Outrage in 1865 That Guards Had to Protect It From Visitors With Canes
In 1865, Édouard Manet's Olympia provoked such fury at the Paris Salon that guards were posted to protect it from visitors wielding canes. This is the story of the painting...