Philosophy

A School (of Athens) Reunion

Raphael painted the artists and thinkers of the Renaissance as they saw…

Origin Stories

Right from the start, art was used to tell our stories — could the earliest examples…

Kubin’s Poetic Paintings

Alfred Kubin used art to delve into the human condition and found sparks to…

Today’s Mood, Melancholia

Albrecht Dürer’s ‘Melancholia’ is one of those important images that sets a…

Franz Marc: Seeing Through it All

The famous painter of colourful animals hoped to find the essence of…

Signified : art, design, media and more

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Shedding Some Light on the Subject: Vermeer’s Everyday Enlightenment

Paintings from an era when art…

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Lust for Life

The ‘Graveyard School’ artists of the Victorian Gothic Revival were the spin-doctors of…

More Human than Human?

At the dawn of the Classical period, looking more closely at ourselves changed…