Artists

The literary icon Kahlil Gibran produced a timeless and mystical body of visual art that is widely unknown, from portraiture to mystical compositions.

An exploratory dive into the art of the Golden Dutch Age and its connection with protestant values.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Cubist artists revolutionized modern painting and changed the history of art forever. Discover its most famous artists.

Leon Battista Alberti’s book On Painting is the first known book on art theory, published in 1435. It heavily influenced all subsequent Renaissance art.

Composers throughout history have taken inspiration for their now-famous operas from the enchanting stories of ancient Greek mythology.

Rembrandt’s artistic evolution from the precise detailing of the visual world towards a more tonal approach to painting divided opinion in his own time.

John Singer Sargent was a man of refined artistic skill, prone to unconventional and sometimes scandalous creative choices.

The Russian Revolution caused a massive refugee crisis in 1920s Europe. Here’s how anti-Soviet émigrés impacted French culture from the Jazz Age to WWII.