
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy. Louis Gurlitt, View of Kullen in Sweden. Smugglers Hiding their Goods...

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy. Louis Gurlitt, View of Kullen in Sweden. Smugglers Hiding their Goods...

During his almost 60-year career he created around 6,000 paintings. The sea became his teacher and would show itself to him under all its facets, providing him with...

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” —Aristotle. In the manner of Ivan Aivazovsky, Constantinople in the Evening Light, 1871, Private...

English landscape and portrait painter Joseph Wright (1734—1797) was fascinated by light, both natural and artificial, and made it the subject of many of his paintings....

Ippolito Caffi’s (1809—1866) restlessness and desire for knowledge made him a tireless traveller, and whether he visited places from personal choice, such as the Near...

The moon frequently features in Ivan Aivazovsky’s (1817—1900) landscape paintings, adding an intense amount of drama to his darker, more monotone seascapes. Ivan...