Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Tower of Babel stands among the most remarkable paintings of the Northern Renaissance. Bruegel...
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This category gathers our writing on painting and the visual arts, from the Renaissance to the modern era. We look at artists, masterpieces and movements in their historical and social context, asking what images reveal about power, faith, fear and human experience.
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Goya and the Birth of Modern Art: Why Was He Ahead of His Time?
Goya’s Charles IV of Spain and His Family: The Criticism Behind a Royal Portrait
Los Caprichos: How Goya Attacked Superstition and Social Hypocrisy
Francisco de Goya’s Los Caprichos occupies a crucial position in the history of European printmaking. Published in 1799, the...
Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son stands among the most disturbing images in European art. The painting depicts the...
Raphael (1483–1520) occupies a central position in High Renaissance painting. Although audiences often associate him with Madonnas,...
Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) occupies a crucial position in the history of European art because he transformed...
Francisco Goya’s Witches’ Sabbath, or The Great He-Goat (El Aquelarre / El Gran Cabrón) ranks among the most disturbing works of...
The School of Athens by Raphael ranks among the most celebrated masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. The fresco...
Francisco de Goya occupies a crucial position in the transition from eighteenth-century European painting to modern art....
Francisco Goya (1746–1828) occupies a unique position in European art history. Today, audiences often associate him with...
Pablo Picasso stands among the most influential figures in the history of modern art. Painted in 1907,...
