French-German painter S. Balthus was widely embraced as a prodigy. He shocked the Parisian art world in 1934 with his dreamy, sensual, neo-classical portraits of...
Even his contemporaries found the work of the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch 1450-1516 difficult to solve and it still presents riddles to art historians today....
With whimsical irony and a style reminiscent of the old masters, Fernando Botero b.1932 began painting caricatured animals and corpulent bodies with disproportionate heads at...
The Brucke is, together with the Blauer Reiter in Munich, one of the most important movements in German expressionism. Meaning the bridge in German, Die...
Chagalls paintings, steeped in mythology and mysticism, portray colourful dreams and tales that are deeply rooted in his Russian Jewish origins. The memories and yearning...
In the summer of 95, the Reichstag building in Berlin was transformed into an immense sculptural experience by Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude along with...
Domenicos Theotocopoulos, better known by his Spanish nickname, El Greco c.1545-1614, studied under Titian in Venice before moving to Toledo. Commissioned by the church and...