Art History
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This painting is one of history's most controversial and influential works of art. It's by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, who painted it all the way back in 1875. Why was it so c...
Art Deco built America. With it, came the greatest display of American culture for decades to come. Here are its greatest masterpieces... (thread) 🧵 1. The American Radiator Bui...
A short introduction to JMW Turner... https://t.co/EFSbz4P5mD
This Monet painting recently sold for nearly $13.4M. It was last purchased in 1978 for $330,000 https://t.co/KQ3ExvICta
How did tourists get pictures before photography? With "vedute", a genre of art all about highly detailed paintings of cities like Rome and Venice. Before social media, this was...
A brief history of animals in art, from prehistoric cave paintings to 21st century films: https://t.co/knn8Kwsv1X
The first and last paintings of famous artists: 1. Vincent van Gogh https://t.co/kWUnT5XOc0
You've seen this image before. It's Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" — but who actually was he? Well, the Renaissance masters were all imitating a man who lived over 1,000 year...
Thread of surreal painting details 🧵 1. Light reflection in the eye https://t.co/Ci0dzAO5YV
Surviving polychromy in Herculaneum that gives a hint of how colourful the ancient world's architecture was https://t.co/UgWVDAVltF
"Lempicka flourished in 1920s Paris..It was a whirlpool of modernism and opulence, of the avant-garde and of reckless epicureanism" reckless epicureanism? 🤔 https://t.co/wggdLMF7W...
An introduction to Johannes Vermeer: https://t.co/xucSIput6f
An introduction to Claude Monet: https://t.co/lY3mqBpQEX
One of the biggest myths is that Mughals invented the miniature school of painting in India. But Akbar under whose rule miniature "Mughal" painting supposedly developed had 17 emin...
Senecio by Paul Klee on the wall. https://t.co/tFvV5z8O4d
150 years ago today, at precisely 8pm, the world of art changed forever. What happened? A small, independent art exhibition opened in Paris. It was a financial failure and barely...
The best way to understand different styles and movements in art is to look at how different artists have painted the same thing over time... https://t.co/aBvU3bH9DK
Why are there thousands of paintings of Jesus and Mary, but none of Muhammad? How art became a gateway to the divine... (thread) 🧵 https://t.co/7iGHnMzV2S
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci is 526 years old, and it's had a rough history. Monks used to eat breakfast next to it, Napoleon's soldiers turned the room into a stable, and...
These strange creatures were painted nearly 500 years ago by a man called Pieter Bruegel. And, if you can believe it, he is one of the most important artists in history. Here's w...
Jan van Eyck painted The Arnolfini Portrait 590 years ago, and it has been causing debate ever since. Does it show a newly married couple? Or something more tragic? Who are the pe...
These are eight slightly different versions of The Great Wave Off Kanagawa from eight different museums. So which is the real one? That's the thing — they're all the real one. He...
A brief introduction to Frederic Edwin Church, one of the greatest landscape painters in history... https://t.co/yj1ebhVZ8Z
In 2009, while watching "Stewart Little" (1999), Hungarian art historian Gergely Barki saw the painting "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" by Róbert Berény. The painting had been...