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Hetairai: The Most Emancipated Class of Women in Ancient Athens?

The list of famous and influential hetairai can be significantly replenished. There are also many examples of the ambiguity of their position: these women could be simultaneously admired and accused of promiscuity, they could be patronised...

Artistic Liberation in La Belle Époque

Two great battles were fought, those of academic art that dealt with maneuvering painting as a list of rules to follow and that of avant-garde art, accompanied by these artists who brought a breath of fresh air to traditionalist painting...

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Alekos Fassianos: the Picasso of Greece

January 16, 2022 was a dark day of mourning for the Greek art world as it said the last goodbye to one of the most famous Greek artists,...

What Western Art Owes to the World

The Quai-Branly Museum in Paris houses more than seventy thousand works - fetishes, thrones, masks, weapons, jewelry, textiles - that...

Standing Against Materialism;
Symbolism Art Movement

Symbolism opens the gate for expression; the philosophical corners of the mind understand the world and all it contains in form of...

Isabella d'Este on Mount Parnassus

One of the great patrons and collectors of the Italian Renaissance was Isabella d’Este (1474-1539). She came from the royal bloodline of...

Georges Seurat’s Pointillism – Painting in Dots

Seurat’s revolutionary and unconventional technique of pointillism reshaped landscape and figurative art at the end of the nineteenth century. Not only did pointillism question the value of shape and space perception, but it also invited the Neo-Impressionist painters...

An Introduction to Impressionism: A Legacy of Bright Shadows

What seems most significant to me about our movement [Impressionism] is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject....

Caravaggio: Genius, Provoker, Murderer and the Master

Caravaggio was not the first one who was using chiaroscuro but he was the one that made it the dominant style by darkening shadows and placing the subject under a strong light from one side. With this, his keen observation of physical and..

Iconography in Greek Mythology

Art is not and has never been naive. From the earliest times to the present day, man has used art as a mechanism of communication in...

Native Melody

The aesthetic of Momčilo Nastasijević was created in a time when there was still belief in a possible totality, where artists struggled to find the central concept around which the world could be comprehended, or in fact, constructed...

Sala di Psyche: Palazzo del Te and Neoplatonism

The Chamber of Psyche is one of the most special, prominent room, which served as a recreational room for the important guests of the Duke of Mantua. It is a space that exudes eroticism and can preoccupy with its decoration for those who enter and stay in it. The myth of Eros and Psyche was...