Winslow Homer and His Works

Winslow Homer and His Works

by | Jul 13, 2022 | Paintings

Winslow Homer is one of the greatest American artists of the 19th century. His paintings always show the relationship between man and nature. Homer is the second of three sons in the family. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1836, Homer grew up in Cambridge. His mother...
Winslow Homer and His Works

Painter Rococo Boucher’s painting style

by | Jul 11, 2022 | Paintings

Boucher is a typical rococo painter. The French writer Goncourt thinks Boucher was a painter who set the model for first century art, remembering characters, drawing and creating them. In his early years, Boucher followed Francois Lemoyne to study painting and had...
Sistine Madonna

Sistine Madonna

by | Jul 8, 2022 | Portrait Painting

Reaching 2.65 meters long, and at 2 meters wide, the Sistine Madonna is considered to be Rapheal’s dramatic masterpiece. There is an interesting history about this painting. It is said that, because of this painting, the rhetoric of the church and the skills of...
Women Hold the Balance

Women Hold the Balance

by | Jan 5, 2021 | Portrait Painting

This painting represents a familiar everyday scene that Vermeer uses to often illustrate in his works. It is reminiscent of ‘Woman with a pearl necklace’ or ‘A young woman holding a waterpitcher’, another by Vermeer. On this canvas we see a...