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Frida Kahlo, Moses, 1945 via Artchive

Rebecca Levenson

Frida Kahlo’s Moses: A Study of Power and Creation

Frida Kahlo’s Moses transforms religious narrative into a visual system of power, identity, and belief shaped by psychoanalysis, history, and human origin.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Torment of Saint Anthony (detail), c. 1487–1488, via Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain

Rebecca Levenson

Case Study: Michelangelo’s The Torment of Saint...

Early Renaissance painting reveals Michelangelo’s first work through narrative, anatomy, and the transformation of Schongauer’s engraving.

Piero della Francesca, The Flagellation of Christ, c. 1455–60. Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino. Digital Image © 2014 Photo Scala, Firenze via Wikipedia

Sebastian Moore

Piero della Francesca’s Flagellation of Christ,...

A study of Piero della Francesca’s Flagellation of Christ that examines its geometry, dual narrative structure, and the lasting mystery of its figures.

Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2025 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York via MoMA

Julian Ashford

Dalí’s Obsession with Time: The Persistence of ...

Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory turns time into dream and decay. In honor of daylight savings, we explore how one painting made time surreal.

Rogier van der Weyden, The Descent from the Cross, 1435 via Smarthistory

Adrian Mercer

Rogier van der Weyden’s The Descent from the Cr...

Rogier van der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross captures the height of human emotion through exquisite detail and compositional mastery.

Giovanni Bellini, Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child (detail), c.1459 via The MET

Hugo Merz

Art History Case Study: Giovanni Bellini’s Mado...

An educational case study on Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child, exploring composition, symbolism, and the art of Renaissance devotion.

Untitled

Louise Irpino

The Impactful and Viral Staying Power of Felix ...

The installation is Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ 1991 work “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in LA), and it’s much more than just a simple, “lazy” piece of object art for visitors to snag...