Pablo Picasso is the quintessential modern artist, a man who embodied the avant-garde's search fo...

A famous travel story of the Middle Ages, which has never lost its charm.

Housed in the Hermitage Museum along with other institutes, libraries, and museums in Russia and ...

Kokoschka commented on Schieles first exhibition by saying that it was ''pornographic.'' His work...

Friedrich Stowasser (1928, Vienna - 2000, New Zealand), better known by the name of Friedrich Hun...

The strict prohibition on the representation of the human form has channeled artistic creation in...

Would you like to be a clown?

Van Gogh

'The Devil holds the strings which move us!' (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857).

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Russian countryside is some of the world's most lovely, from the celebrated explosions of wildflo...

Art Nouveau designates a decorative and architectural style developed in the 1880s and 1890s in t...

For more than a millennium, from its creation in 330 A.D. until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine E...

The Russian Avant-Garde was born at the turn of the twentieth century in pre-revolutionary Russia...

The Bauhaus movement is one of the most significant cultural developments of the 20th century. Wa...