Famous Paintings
Peter Paul Rubens’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Altarpieces, abductions, lions, queens and one very famous hat: the ten works that made Rubens the great engine of Baroque painting.
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Formats
Print Sizes Explained: A Complete Size Guide
The full size ladder, what each aspect ratio gives you, how to match a size to a wall, and why the piece that arrives is bigger than the number you bought.
Famous Paintings
Amedeo Modigliani’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Long necks, tilted heads, and eyes left blank: the ten works that made Modigliani the most recognizable portraitist of modern Paris.
Comparisons
Impressionism vs Post-Impressionism
Impressionism recorded what the eye saw. Post-Impressionism kept the color and put structure, feeling and symbol back in. Here is where the line falls.
Famous Paintings
Egon Schiele’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Ten defining works by the great Viennese modernist — searing self-portraits, a beloved model, and townscapes of astonishing color.
Style & Color
Art for a Blue Room
Three color relationships that work on a blue wall, the one that always fails, and the palettes to pair with navy, teal, slate and powder blue.
Famous Paintings
Alphonse Mucha’s Ten Most Iconic Posters and Panels
Champagne, cigarette papers, bicycles and the zodiac: the ten designs that turned a Moravian illustrator into the face of Art Nouveau.
Comparisons
Monet vs Manet: What’s the Difference?
Two different painters, eight years apart, who knew each other and were confused with each other from the day they met — here is how to tell them apart.
Famous Paintings
Gustave Courbet’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Wrestlers, wave crests, working women and a painter’s own studio: the ten works that made Courbet the founder of Realism.
Style & Color
Japandi and Quiet Minimalism
The narrow palette, the value discipline and the one dark accent that make a quiet room work — plus how it differs from plain Scandinavian minimalism.
Famous Paintings
Jean-François Millet’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Gleaners, sowers and shepherdesses: the ten works in which Millet gave the French peasant the dignity of an Old Master saint.
Famous Paintings
William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Goddesses, angels, and barefoot peasant children, painted with unearthly polish: the ten works that define the great academic master.