Category: Great portraits
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Toulouse-Lautrec at the blue cabaret
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec captured the glamour of La Belle Époque in Paris, but his most profound paintings reveal a deep empathy for those who felt like outsiders.
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Why look at paintings of Saint Joseph
Countless young men feel detached from traditional male role models. Could a father figure from the 1st century click with Gen Z? Joseph of Nazareth might surprise you.
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George Bellows: Last stop, 59th Street
The lone tenement beneath New York’s Queensboro Bridge looks out of place. Is it real? Or is it an architectural ghost, haunting us with memories of a demolished neighborhood?
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Leonardo’s irrefutable feminism
During the Renaissance, women were portrayed as ideals, symbols, and allegories—even in their own portraits. Then Leonardo da Vinci and his muse said goodbye to all that.
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Titian portrays lust with eloquence
Artists usually cast Venus as a symbol of untouchable beauty. But not Titian. He lures the goddess from the heavens into the bedroom, trading divine perfection for a carnal allure.