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In 18th Century France, public anger at Louis XVI's decadent living habits during famine lead to a revolution which saw an end to the autocratic power of the monarch and the aristocracy. As the upper clas...

This painting presented a clear challenge to the typical academic female nude. The conventional female nude was Classically modelled, with an even, well proportioned, alluring feminine body, of the type t...

This ovular and geometrical construction from Rodchenko focusses solely on the exploitation of materials in space. The sculpture comprises of eleven ovular disks cut from plywood and then painted in dark ...

Mannerism is a modern word used to describe an artistic tendency that involved many forms of art, which developed in Europe after the Renaissance, approximatively in the mid-16th century. For what concern...

Turner's loose brushwork creates the impression of speed and movement. The directional brushstrokes consisting of pale white paint, evident for example in the right foreground as the brushstrokes interjec...