‘Master M S’, an unknown painter whose initials, as well as the date 1506, were found on one of the panels of an altarpiece from Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia (a town formerly in Northern Hungary) The Visitation (meeting of the Virgin Mary and Saint Elisabeth) has become an iconic image …
Art history
Who Painted the Skating Minister?
The oil painting attributed to the Scottish Sir Henry Raeburn was brought to the National Gallery of Scotland in 1949 from the collection of the great grand-daughter of the sitter. Since then it has become one of Scotland's best-known paintings and an icon of Scottish …
Gustav Klimt & Emilie Flöge
Emilie Flöge was an Austrian fashion designer and the life companion, friend of Gustav Klimt. Their relationship was extremely unusual: they were romantic partners that never got married nor had children, and maintened a level of independence unprecedented for the time. Flöge had been …