Penitent Magdalene by Donatello | The artist Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, known as Donatello, is one of the greatest Florentine sculptors. A prolific and versatile early Renaissance figure working in stone, metal, wood, terracotta and bronze. This innovative artist
After the Second World War, Lucio Fontana began to tell people about his concept of Spatialism. He observed that in many other areas of life, things are changing and being accelerated through machines and technologies, but that art hasn't changed
The history of art in colour: Red Red is the oldest colour. Though its tones range from the earthy reds of animals depicted on cave walls to the fiery reds of contemporary artwork – red is unquestionably an emotionally intense color.
Most famous art thefts in history? There are so many! The theft of works of art is at first sight an absurd phenomenon. The paintings are unique. You steal a famous one and then who's going to buy it? How
Nam June Paik and video art at the Tate Modern Nam June Paik is one of those artists with a purpose, a precise purpose: to combine art and technology to create a sharing experience that tells about all of us and
How to analyze a work of art? One of the phrases that we hear most often or that we ourselves may have thought of when we approached for the first time a work or an artist we did not know
Kandinsky's Composition VII. Kandinsky has the most important insight of his career into the years before the First World War. He works in Munich, Germany and develops a new painting language, which helps him to create original abstract paintings in
Permanent collection VS Temporary exhibition. It must have happened to everyone at least once in their life to walk the streets of our city and see the billboard advertising a new exhibition in our favorite museum. And if this exhibition
The 8 principles of a work of art? In the same way that a writer combines letters to form words and from there the sentences and paragraphs of his story, so an artist puts elements together to create an image.
The Bather of Valpinçon by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres is located at Louvre in Paris. In this nude, Ingres has created what is surely one of the greatest shoulder portraits in the history of art. A work with the perfect balance between