Paintings by Vermeer have long been reproduced in all types of formats, whether posters, patterns on handbags or umbrellas. But as the technology improves and visitors have the artificial but intimate experience of seeing high-quality reproductions in a museum setting, does Ms. Gordenker worry tha...
One of the most famous paintings in the world, the Birth of Venus was painted sometime in the 1480s at the height of the Renaissance by Sandro Botticelli. Spellbinding to gaze upon, the masterpiece features a nude Venus, the goddess of love, emerging from a scallop. As this exquisite myt...
(listen); 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the ...
Visiting it in a single day is truly an impossible undertaking, but you can organize your visit by focusing on the historical and artistic themes of greatest personal interest. The museum's two art galleries are exceptional with paintings by Brueghel, Arcimboldo, Caravaggio, Velazquez...
The portrait’s size is 61cm x 46.5cm, the paints and primers are the same of the da Vinci’s. It is considered as a full sketch version for Isabella Daisy. The painting, like theMona Lisa, is in the Louvre as exhibition. Mona Lisa ...
Famous Oil Paintings in the World If you’re a lover of art, you should know that there are countlessfamous paintingsto choose from. These works by master artists have been used in many different media over the centuries. You might find it interesting to know who created these masterpieces ...
The Dutch paintings are great, and most seem to be on view, including three of the Vermeers. Pay special attention to the "School of Rembrandt" painting of the small boy with the broom. It is one of those canvasses that got downgraded in the great Rembr...
Franck was in boarding school from the age of six onwards, and her mother sent her a postcard every day, frequently of paintings. Ms. Franck, attended Heathfield School, an all-girls boarding school close to Ascot in England, and studied the history of art from the age of 14. "I had...
Amongst the genre are some of the most famous artworks in the world – including ‘Lady with an Ermine’ by Leonardo da Vinci and ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ by Johannes Vermeer. Artists such as Frida Kahlo and Pablo Picasso have also documented their lives through their paintings. Over ...
He created “The Concert” in 1664 which was discovered in 1892 and exhibited at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. In 1990, a man disguised as police broke into the museum and stole several historical paintings, one of which was Vermeer’s “The Concert,” which is now valued...