In non-art related news: the Sydney lockdown ‘21 is extended for another month – until August 28th. Please send sydneysiders some good...

“There has always been, while I was making the photographs, this blurring of reality and fiction.” This quote from an interview with...

Do you like riddles? This gorgeous riddle of a painting by Bronzino is probably one of the most amusing and hardest paintings to decipher...

I think I can almost smell the warm, sweet, doughy fragrance of these delectable breads. This divine offering to the Soviet gods is...

There were lots of celebratory posts of Frida Kahlo’s birthday yesterday and indeed, her birth certificate states that she was born on...

The Cosimo I de’ Medici in Armour portrait (c. 1545) was conceived at the time of radical political change and upheaval in 16th century...

Can official court portraiture have any secrets hidden behind it? Take this strange depiction of Cosimo I de Medici by Agnolo Bronzino,...

The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, a political monolith that plunged USSR into years of economic...

If I may show you just one more portrait from the history of the Archibald… It’s my absolute favourite and the story behind it is gold....

What happens to our old love affairs? Do they get filed away in our hearts? Like old, forgotten tax receipts get filed away in a drawer?...

In this group portrait you might recognize the figure in the blue suit, with his empty-eyed profile, reminiscent of West African masks....

There is no clever story behind this work – it’s just a quiet morning. Just breakfast - coffee, flowers, sun, a pensive gaze. This is one...

For me, Leonardo's The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is one of the most tender depictions of motherhood ever created. ⠀ Leonardo was...

Visually walking through Carlo Crivelli's Annunciation is a majestic, otherworldly experience. With its perspectival complexity,...

You know that feeling – you go on a first date with someone and they keep making jokes, the jokes are funny, and the person is kinda...

The sash of the eternally young Madonna in Michelangelo’s majestic Pieta states in Latin: “Michelangelo Buonarroti, Florentine, was...

I’d like you to meet Isidora. She is about 2000 years old and she lived in Roman Egypt. She is an example of the beautiful Fayum...

Sometimes so very little is known about an artist’s life, that the images they leave behind are the only glimpses we have into their...

More often than not, people remember their first time like it was yesterday. I do too. The first time a painting hit me like a sucker...

Strange, reclusive, capricious, eccentric, hypochondriac – these are just a few epithets that are awarded to Jacopo Pontormo, the...