Art has never lacked shadows and, in fact, as Rembrandt would say: "shadows are the only thing that makes light possible". It had to be precisely one of the geniuses of tenebrism…
A girl in profile, her hair pinned up, dressed in a richly embroidered gown, stands out against a neutral background decorated with flowers and crossed by three fluttering butterflies, like a tapestry. This…
There are no reliable portraits, no letters, no diary, not even his sketches. All that is left to us of the French painter Georges de La Tour is some thirty artworks that for more than two centuries…
The Bauhaus academy, founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius and active until 1933, the year it was shut down by the German political machinery of the time, is a…
The value and artistic quality of the woodcuts of French engraver and illustrator Gustave Doré (Strasbourg, 1832 - Paris, 1883) make him one of the most prolific and influential draughtsmen…
“Nil similus insanu quam ebrius” (Nothing is more like a madman than a drunkard) is the inscription presiding over El rey bebe (1640-1645), one of the most studied paintings by Jacob Jordaens (Antwerp…
At a moment in history (1730-1760) when the Rococo movement, with its taste for the exotic, the refined and the sensual, ruled the French art scene, fate chose to place, in that…
“It isn't hard to draw imaginary forms, monstrous figures, hallucinatory apparitions; what's hard is to catch a glimpse of something invisible that inwardly animates the beings and things of the world…