Histoire de l’art

Arcimboldo’s Four Seasons: Analysis and Symbolism

Arcimboldo’s Four Seasons: Analysis and Symbolism

Explore Arcimboldo’s Four Seasons: composite portraits, seasonal objects, cycles of life, four elements, Habsburg power and the history of the 1573 Louvre set.

Arcimboldo’s Four Seasons: Analysis and Symbolism

Explore Arcimboldo’s Four Seasons: composite portraits, seasonal objects, cycles of life, four elements, Habsburg power and the history of the 1573 Louvre set.

Impressionism: Definition, Artists and Major Works

Impressionism: Definition, Artists and Major Works

Discover how Impressionism emerged, how to recognise its light and brushwork, and what Monet, Morisot, Degas, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley and Cassatt changed.

Impressionism: Definition, Artists and Major Works

Discover how Impressionism emerged, how to recognise its light and brushwork, and what Monet, Morisot, Degas, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley and Cassatt changed.

The Mona Lisa: History, Analysis and the Painting’s Secrets

The Mona Lisa: History, Analysis and the Painti...

Look beyond the famous smile: analyse the Mona Lisa’s hands, sfumato, changing expression, gaze, landscape, documented identity and history of fame.

The Mona Lisa: History, Analysis and the Painti...

Look beyond the famous smile: analyse the Mona Lisa’s hands, sfumato, changing expression, gaze, landscape, documented identity and history of fame.

Realism in Painting: Definition, Artists and Works

Realism in Painting: Definition, Artists and Works

Understand how Courbet, Millet, Daumier and Rosa Bonheur gave monumental attention to ordinary contemporary life and transformed the hierarchy of painting.

Realism in Painting: Definition, Artists and Works

Understand how Courbet, Millet, Daumier and Rosa Bonheur gave monumental attention to ordinary contemporary life and transformed the hierarchy of painting.

Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass: Anatomy of a Modern Scandal

Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass: Anatomy of a Mod...

Why did Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass shock Paris in 1863? Read its gaze, Old Master sources, broken perspective and lasting modernity.

Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass: Anatomy of a Mod...

Why did Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass shock Paris in 1863? Read its gaze, Old Master sources, broken perspective and lasting modernity.

Gustav Klimt’s Judith II: The Femme Fatale Reconsidered

Gustav Klimt’s Judith II: The Femme Fatale Reco...

Read Klimt’s Judith II through its narrow format, tense hands, displaced severed head and ambiguity between heroine, Salome and femme fatale.

Gustav Klimt’s Judith II: The Femme Fatale Reco...

Read Klimt’s Judith II through its narrow format, tense hands, displaced severed head and ambiguity between heroine, Salome and femme fatale.