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15 Things You Should Know About Caravaggio’s The Calling of St. Matthew Sixteenth century Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is recognized as one of history’s most

Impression Sunrise by Claude Monet This work was painted from a hotel window at Le Havre in 1873 (Monet later dated it incorrectly to 1872). It was one of the nine works that he showed at the

THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT The artwork is closely tied to the Spanish Civil War and in particular to the bombardment of the city of Guernica by General Franco’s aviation. In just a few hours on April 26, 1937 the Basque city was razed to the ground. It was the period when the whole country of Spain…

Originally exhibited under the title ‘Landscape: Noon’, the finished painting was referred to by Constable’s friend Archdeacon Fisher as ‘The Haywain’ as early as February 1821, and this soon became its popular name.

The Calling of St Matthew (Caravaggio) The Calling of Saint Matthew is a masterpiece by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, depicting the moment at which Jesus Christ inspires Matthew to

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