Category: Artists

Leonardo da Vinci is often called the greatest painter and inventor of all time, and much of his work has survived to this day. Some of his paintings became so […]

Art has been used by humans as a form of expression for hundreds of thousands of years and art itself is even older than language. Before we could speak, we […]

Georgia was born in 1887 in Wisconsin into a family with six siblings.  Her mother was a great encouragement, and Georgia was able to take lessons in watercolour from an […]

Known for both his mental instability and his art, Vincent van Gogh is the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, and although he remained virtually unknown through most of his life, […]

The name Leonardo da Vinci has become synonymous with some of the greatest artistry the world has ever known. There are countless historic retellings of this famous Renaissance artist’s work […]

Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor, architect and a poet.  His full name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni born on 6 March 1475 and died 18 February 1564. Michelangelo was […]

Thanks to the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Guggenheim, New York is home to one of the largest collections of Impressionist paintings in the world, […]

The Italian Renaissance took place between the 14th and 16th centuries and was a period of significant cultural change across Europe. Artistic masters who displayed an interest in the beauty […]