Art/Painting Art Prints

Pissarro moved back to the Pontoise area where he had lived previously, and remained there for ten years producing over three hundred paintings of ...

Visiting Rouen in 1896, Pissarro wrote of the "motif of the iron bridge on a rainy day, with much traffic, carriages, pedestrians, workers on the q...

Camille Pissarro worked mainly in the Paris area but painted in London during visits. Similar to several other great artists, he found refuge in Lo...

St. Thomas, where the artist Camille Pissarro was born, is an island in the Southern Caribbean. Having been sent to a boarding school in France age...

Pissarro’s home in Normandy was in Eragny, where he lived from 1884 until his death. Painted during the last artistic phase, the painting depicts a...

Pissarro moved back to the Pontoise area where he had lived previously, and remained there for ten years producing over three hundred paintings of ...

It is said that from not wanting to paint outdoors for his vulnerability to eye infections and his aversion to the busy outdoors due to age, many o...

A landscape painted near his rural home, Pissarro uses pointillism but with slightly broader brushstrokes. His revelatory approach to painting land...

Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) British painter, book illustrator, and designer, who grew up in Sussex. He is particularly known for his paintings of th...

Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) British painter, book illustrator, and designer, who grew up in Sussex. He is particularly known for his paintings of th...

Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) British painter, book illustrator, and designer, who grew up in Sussex. He is particularly known for his paintings of th...

Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) British painter, book illustrator, and designer, who grew up in Sussex. He is particularly known for his paintings of th...

55m in height, the horse figure on the Salisbury Plain is the oldest of several white horses that can be found in Wiltshire. By Eric Ravilious (190...

Jingle Bells, the iconic song in the festive period, was written in 1857 by James Lord Pierpont. It was recorded on an Edison cylinder in 1889, mak...

The design comes from tiles made by Minton in the late 19th century. Produced during the Aesthetic Movement in Britain, the ‘cult of beauty’ aimed ...

The design comes from tiles made by Minton Hollins in the late 19th century. Produced during the Aesthetic Movement in Britain, the ‘cult of beauty...

Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit, the Chinese name Guanyin is short for Guanshiyin, which means The One Who Perceives the Sounds of the World. This bodh...

Imperial Chinese embroidery portraying the thousand arms and eleven heads of Guanyin. This manifestation of the compassionate bodhisattva is often ...

At the centre of the Tibetan mandala sits the peaceful manifestation of the Bodhisatva Manjushri, also known as Manjuvajra, embracing his consort. ...

The painting from Nepal portrays the wrathful deity, also known as Acalanatha, depicted with his consort Vishvavajri. Achala is venerated as Budong...

The Chinese silks and leather shapes skilfully portray the Bodhisattva Manjushri, whose name means Gentle Glory in Sanskrit. Considered a fully enl...

The Tibetan tsakli card portrays a manifestation of Manjushri. A card that belongs to a small sets of paintings (usually anything from 6 to 100) us...

From a Chinese embroidery in silk, metallic thread and horsehair. Vajrabhairava scares selfishness and egoism - the main causes of suffering. It is...

In Greco-Roman mythology, the peacock tail was said to have the "eyes" of the stars. Peacocks with their graceful beauty, symbolise watchfulness, v...

By William Michael Harnett (1848–1892), an Irish-American painter. Born in Cork, he and his family emigrated to America soon after his birth. He st...

The original lithograph titled "Grimalkin's Royal Circus". A grimalkin is an archaic term for a cat. The famous prophet, Nostradamus, had a cat nam...

Carl Reichert (1836-1918) was born in Vienna and took after his father, Heinrich Reichert who was also a painter of animal and portraits. Reichert ...

An engraving by the Dutch artist Cornelis Bloemaert II (1603-1692). The text below in Dutch reads "Wat baet keers off bril, als den WL niet sien en...

Although its origin is unknown, a maypole is a tall wooden pole that is erected, around which a maypole dance takes place as a part of various Eur...

Junger Dackel (Young dachshund) by the artist Karl Reichert (1836–1918). He studied at the Academy of Drawing in Gratz, continuing to study in Mun...

Did you know that a group of cats is called a clowder, a male cat is called a tom, a female cat is called a molly or queen? Cats at school by Engli...

Poppies symbolise beauty, magic, consolation and eternal life. A single poppy can produce up to 60,000 seeds, which extrapolates to hundreds of mil...

As the poplar tree is known for growing quickly even from broken branches on the ground, it is commonly associated to courage, fertility, wealth an...

From The Angel’s Concert, the image portrays two seated angles reading from a song book. By Cherubino Alberti (1553-1615).

Throughout van Gogh’s career, wheat fields have been a great source of inspiration for the artist, serving as a subject during the artist’s experim...

Originating from Latin, sexta hora (sixth hour), the Spanish word for siesta meaning "mid-day nap" dates from the mid 17th century which indicates ...