Can the visual arts capture movement in stillness? This slideshow traces the representation of dance, particularly of dancing groups, through western…
Angelica Frey
When thinking of great art, we can’t discount the importance that …
If one symbol represents love, power, royalty, beauty, sensuality, and mysticism–it is the rose. This slide show will focus on the prominence of roses in Western art from the first millennium BCE to…
In the 1940s, Disney famously released a series of movies that were either shorter features or a collection of separate segments with or without a vaguely-defined overarching theme, known as…
The contemporary pastoral reverie known as cottagecore is one of the visual trends that has defined 2020.
The femme fragile was the product of its time: in the Victorian era, feminine weakness conveyed Godliness and mental purity.
From Michelangelo's marble masterpiece to equally amazing but lesser-known works, here are some of the most fascinating representations of David in Renaissance and Baroque…
There's no doubt that the statues by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini were markedly sensual, which might seem paradoxical in the era of the Counter-Reformation and for an artist whose main…
