Unfortunately, very little is known about this outstanding work of art. I love the way the tiny children, human beings if you like, are...

The statue of Laocoön and His Sons, also called the Laocoön Group (Italian: Gruppo del Laocoonte), has been one of the most famous...

Homer was the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature. The...

Diana is a goddess in Roman and Hellenistic religion, primarily considered a patroness of the countryside, hunters, crossroads, and the...

This painting destincts itself from other female portraits because of the stately and at the same time, when looking at it from another...

One of the artist’s earliest, most successful works, Hercules and Omfala, is kept in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. For...

Jupiter and Callisto is a 1744 painting by François Boucher, now in the Pushkin Museumin Moscow. It shows Jupiter disguised as Dianato...

Saint Isaac's Cathedral or Isaakievskiy Sobor is a cathedral that currently functions as a museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is...

Catherine The Great Visiting Potemkin In His Seclusion is a paper bural engraving made in 1790 by a French artist. It can be considered...

Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (Grigory Graf von Orlow) (1734–1783) was the favoriteof Catherine the Great of Russia who presumably...

France, 1787 Le Baiser à la dérobée or The Stolen Kiss is a painting by French painter Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) from the end of...

Le Bénédicité (Grace) is a painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. Chardin made several versions of the painting, one...

As a part of the 1665‘s “Storm” series by Claude Vernet, this painting beautifully depicts a heavy storm probably near Italy or France,...

France, between 1763 and 1771 In 1763 Falconet was commissioned to produce this work for his first patron, Madame de Pompadour, favourite...

The story of Pygmalion and Galatea is an enchanting myth about a Cypriot sculptor who fell in love with his own sculpture. He prays to...