Movements
Art Nouveau Explained
The whiplash curve, the poster, and the twenty years around 1900 when Europe tried to redesign everything at once.
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Famous Paintings
James Tissot’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Parisian society, London river parties, and a late life spent illustrating the Bible: the ten works that define James Tissot.
Famous Paintings
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Cool porcelain skin, impossible curves, and the finest line in French painting: the ten works that define Ingres.
Style & Color
Art for Green and Earth-Toned Rooms
Sage, olive, forest, clay and terracotta each want different art. The palettes that work, the ones that turn a warm room muddy, and why the frame matters more here.
Famous Paintings
Jacques-Louis David’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Oaths, martyrs and emperors: ten paintings by the artist who gave the French Revolution and Napoleon their public face.
Famous Paintings
The Most Famous Cat Paintings in Art History
From Steinlen’s black cat poster to the forty-two Persians of My Wife’s Lovers — eight cat pictures that earned their place in art history.
Famous Paintings
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Radiant Madonnas and ragged street children: the ten works that made Murillo the most beloved painter of Golden Age Spain.
Famous Paintings
The Most Famous Horse Paintings
Stubbs, Bonheur, Géricault, Degas, Marc — eight paintings that turned the horse into one of the great subjects of Western art.
Famous Paintings
Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Flying slippers, stolen kisses, and gardens gone wild: the ten works that made Fragonard the last great painter of the Rococo.
Famous Paintings
The Great Ocean and Wave Paintings
Hokusai’s Great Wave, Aivazovsky’s Ninth Wave, Turner’s whalers, Homer’s Maine breakers — eight pictures that taught the world how to look at the sea.
Famous Paintings
Pierre Bonnard’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Lamplit rooms, laid tables, and the blazing light of the south: ten paintings by the great colorist of ordinary life.
Famous Paintings
Famous Moon and Night-Sky Paintings
Van Gogh, Friedrich, Grimshaw, Hiroshige — eight paintings that made the night sky one of the great subjects in art.