The Dulwich Picture Gallery is one of the most famous and interesting art museums in England’s capital city, London. It was opened in 1817 in a building that was built by architect John Soane specifically for the gallery. The Dulwich Picture Gallery was born out of the work of two great people, the Frenchman Noël […]
The Gallery of Contemporary Art opened in 1997 in an unusual cubic building next to the Kunsthalle. The architecture of the museum provoked heated debates. Today under the roof of the gallery are works by contemporary artists from the 1960s to the present day. In 1937 the ruling Nazis classified more than 70 works from […]
In the Uffizi Gallery (Florence, Italy), one of the most visited masterpieces of the Renaissance remains Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1445-1510). The painting by the unsurpassed master of the Italian Early Renaissance was painted between 1483 and 1485. For nearly 3 centuries it was not appreciated, mainly because of religious taboos, fascination with […]
The most famous painting of the Renaissance is Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503 – 1519). He was a great experimenter in various fields – science, art, mechanics, astronomy and more. It is difficult to overestimate the influence of this great Italian artist on the development of world painting. The main masterpiece that draws millions […]