House of the Dragon - A History of the Dragon in Visual Art
With HBO's first Game of Thrones prequel set to air towards the end of the month, we find ourselves strapping in for more fantastical...
Object and Art - A Timeline of the Still Life Through Artistic History
In Ancient Greece, Pliny the Elder recorded a story in the Naturalis Historia about a competition held between two artists - Zeuxis of...
Animals in the History of Visual Art: A Deep Dive
At least 45,000 years ago, early humans began marking surfaces with representations that reflected a vivid conceptualization of their...
In 500 Words - Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 1 (1915) by Hilma af Klint
Before Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian, there was Hilma af Klint. Considered the first abstract artist in Western art history, af Klint...
In 500 Words - Anguish by August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck
The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia possesses artworks from Salvador Dali and Margaret Olley to Sidney Nolan and...