
Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano was born in 1503 in Monticelli, a small town near Florence. From the outset of his career he was known as Bronzino, a nickname whose origins...

Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano was born in 1503 in Monticelli, a small town near Florence. From the outset of his career he was known as Bronzino, a nickname whose origins...
For the first time, 8 surviving panels from Duccio’s ‘Maesta’ altarpiece (the biggest known in Europe) are reunited together since their dispersal some 250 years ago....

“I find everything poetic, and it’s in the corners of my heart which are sometimes mysterious that I catch a glimpse of poetry… I feel a sensation that leads me into a...

Alfred Sisley was born in 1839 to English parents recently settled in Paris, where his father had a successful textile business; the artist spent practically his entire...
What was I made for, Madame X? 🖤 Highlights from the exhibition “Sargent and Fashion”. John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), an American artist became one of the most...
When I fall in love, it will be forever ❤️ Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Tag someone who loves watching sunsets 🌅 Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Lucifer was one of God´s favorite angels. He was expulsed from Heaven when he rebelled against His power. To represent the subject, Spanish painter Antonio María...

Norwegian artist Peder Balke (1804—1887) visited the North Cape only once, in 1832, but the experience became a touchstone of his imagination for the rest of his life....

After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, Samuel Morse (1791—1872) contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European...

This small, jewel-like religious painting was made as a gift for Ingres’s friend Louise Marcotte, who introduced the artist to Delphine Ramel, whom he married in 1852....

Gustave Caillebotte (1848—1894) completed this highly unusual floral still life in 1893 while living in Petit-Gennevilliers, a suburb of Paris on the banks of the Seine...

Trained as a painter of animals and favored by both Louis XIV and Louis XV, Alexandre François Desportes (1661—1743) achieved fame not only for his hunting scenes but...

This idyllic landscape “The Portico of a Country Mansion, near Florence” painted by Hubert Robert, commissioned by a financier, Jean-François Bergeret de Frouville, a...
Be My Valentine 🤍 If I was a Song 🎶 Evis Presley, Can't Help Falling in Love @haleyreinhart

This oil sketch was made for a lost canvas ceiling painting that Dutch artist Jacob de Wit (1695—1754) executed in 1738 for the Aldermen's or Sheriffs' Hall...
My designs on Maxfield Parrish (1849–1917) paintings @arthistorydiary 💜💚💛💙 Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Hubert Robert (1733—1808) left his native Paris for Rome in 1754 and studied at the French Academy there. In Rome he met the painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard and in 1760...
Inspired by Titanic movie 🌊

A large painting of a lush Indonesian tropical landscape was painted by Raden Saleh (1811—1880), an Indonesian Romantic artist of Arab-Javanese ethnicity. He came to the...

“Kindred Spirits”, a painting by Asher Brown Durand (1796—1886), shows a view of the Catskill Mountains as a Romantic landscape, where irregular trees and deep chasms...

In the academic hierarchy of late 18th century art, landscape painting was considered inferior in comparison to history, portrait and genre painting. This perception...

“I capture the powerful beauty of clouds and storms on camera and translate their majesty onto canvas with brush and oil paint. Each painting is an intimate portrait...

Frederick Judd Waugh (1861—1940) was an American marine painter. He left for Paris, where he entered the Académie Julian and studied under Adolphe William Bougereau and...
The Magic of Disney as you have never seen it before 🏰🔮Pink castles, talking sofas, and objects coming to life: what sounds like fantasies from the pioneering...

Albert Bierstadt's (1830–1902) paintings of the untamed American West are some of the most significant historical and artistic accomplishments of the 19th century. The...
Beauties by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), a Victorian British Pre-Raphaelite artist. His muses: Alexa Wilding, Elizabeth Siddall, Frances Cornford, Jane Morris ❤️

While this work has been historically identified as Lake George, the composition more closely resembles Cropsey's paintings of Greenwood Lake in Orange County, New York....

The group of paintings called "The Last Summer's Work," left behind in John Frederick Kensett's (1816—1872) summer studio at Darien, Connecticut, at his death in...

Primarily a portraitist, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749—1803) had especially faithful patrons in Louis XV’s daughters, known as Mesdames de France. In 1783, she won...
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