Hagen Rainer

Byzantine empresses, French revolutionaries, and Spanish generals: history’s most impressive figures stare boldly out of the canvases in this collection of formidable paintings. Each individual represented in these images radiates with stre

Surreptitious messages, concealed myths, and historical truths lie hidden in the great works of the Italian Renaissance, behind heavy gold leaf and religious symbology. Although often obscured by the archaic language of historical painting,

Goya

It might seem like the sitters and subjects of art history's greatest nude paintings have little left to show, but don't be fooled: there is more than meets the eye in these naked masterworks. Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen guide us into the s

The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31-1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well as religious subjects, both notable for

Pieter Bruegel miał około czterdziestu lat, gdy książę Alba wjeżdżał do Brukseli. Malarz był żonaty i miał syna. Jego pozycja jako artysty nie była w Europie tak ugruntowana, jak niedawno zmarłego Michała Anioła czy Tycjana, u którego każdy