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The 3 Most Famous Renaissance Artists Series Part 3: Raphael

Madonna of the Meadow 1506 1. Madonna of the Meadow Raphael's Madonna of the Meadow shows three figures; Mary, baby Jesus, and a baby St. John in a traditional triangular composition, and are linked through touch and their ...

The 3 Most Famous Renaissance Artists Series Part 2: Michelangelo

In this second edition of The 3 Most Famous Renaissance Artists Series, our featured artist is Michelangelo. Like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo is an iconic Renaissance Man; he gained expertise in many fields of the arts, earning the nickname â€...

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"The Scream" and Art Theft

Norwegian painter Edvard Munch's famous series, The Scream, has been the target of numerous art thefts in recent years. The series, created from 1893 to 1910, includes two oil paintings, two pastels, and a lithograph. One of the painted versio...

The Bridal Pair with the Eiffel Tower

Marc Chagall, a Russian-French artist, is one of the most well-known and universally admired painters of the twentieth century, as well as one of the most famous Jewish artists of all time. During his long and productive lifetime (he lived to be ...

The "Wild Beasts" - Fauvism influence on modern art

A group of artists known as "The Wild Beasts," or Les Fauvres, in French, took the art world by storm at the beginning of the twentieth century. Though the art movement only lasted three short years, Fauvism has has a huge influence on modern art...

The Eccentric Behavior of Salvador Dali

Spanish artist Salvador Dali is perhaps the most famous Surrealist painter in the history of art.  He is best known for the bizarre, unrealistic qualities of his paintings and sculpture.  In Explosion, for example, he pain...

The 3 Most Famous Renaissance Artists Series: Part 1 - Leonardo da Vinci

During the Renaissance, the classical cannon of artistic techniques and subject matter, that we today may take for granted, became established- forever changing art as we now know it. The Renaissance today is know for an explosion of knowledge a...

The Stolen Artwork of Gustav Klimt

Austrian painter Gustav Klimt is best known for his ‘Golden Phase’ – a time when he used gold leaf in many of his paintings. He created his most famous works during this phase, including The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. The latt...

5 of the Most Innovative Paintings of All Time

1. Masaccio, The Holy Trinity, 1467-27 Today, we take for granted an artist’s ability to render objects realistically in space.   Painters, however, did not have an accurate method to display perspective until the early Rena...