The creation of the universe was the beginning of art. From then on, it accompanied humanity and became a fundamental part of our existence. Art comes in all sorts of forms – from atoms, molecules, DNA to man-made paintings and sculptures. No matter whether natural or artificial production, until today, art inspires many people and […]

The Italian inventor and painter Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the most famous artists of his time, and still upholds a great reputation. His painting “Mona Lisa” is probably his most famous work, which is admired and respected around the world. An interesting fact: Da Vinci’s 500-year-old painting “Salvator Mundi” was recently auctioned for […]

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of […]

The Mona Lisa (Italian: Monna Lisa or La Gioconda, French: La Joconde) is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that has been described as “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world”. The Mona […]

The Vitruvian Man belongs to the best known sketches of Leonardo da Vinci. It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius. The drawing, which is in pen and ink on paper, depicts a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and […]

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d’art. Klimt’s primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In […]

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (German: Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer), also known as Wanderer above the Mist or Mountaineer in a Misty Landscape, is an oil painting c. 1818 by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. It currently resides in the Kunsthalle Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. In the foreground, a young man […]

The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by Norwegian Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910. The German title Munch gave these works is Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature). The works show a figure with […]

The Tree of life is an important symbol used by many theologies, philosophies and mythologies. It signifies the connection between heaven and earth and the underworld, and the same concept is illustrated by Gustav Klimt’s famous mural, The Tree of Life. For Klimt’s admirers, the mural also has another significance, being the only landscape created […]