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The first printed edition of the collection of most import laws in the Kingdom of Poland. It begins with the Statuta of King Casimir the Great (14 th century) and ends with the acts of Polish Parliament from 1505, which adopted the Constitution Nihil novi…

Kristian Zahrtmann (1843–1917) was the first in a line of great native painters from Bornholm. Although Zahrtmann settled in Copenhagen and spent most of his summers in Italy’s mountain village of Civita d’Antino, he maintained strong ties with the island…

As the grandparents of the artist lived near by Kalundborg he knew this landscape very well. Although Denmark is just a small country he loved his native land for its history, its gently undulating landscape and impressively long coastline.

A young artist is taking a break from his work, holding up a study in front of a mirror to see how the composition would look in reverse. The picture gives an impression of how the painters of the time saw themselves: As serious, self-aware artists. The p…

Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann said about this portrait of her husband Jens Adolf Jerichau (1816-1883) that “it contains the most loving memories which denote her marital life” and that “it will not be sold for as long as she lives”. The couple met each other…

L.A. Ring was married in 1896, the year before he painted this portrait of his wife, Sigrid Kähler (1874-1923). At that time he was 42, while she was 22. Thus, it seems natural to join several other art historians in interpreting this image as a declarati…

Karl Pärsimägi remained free and different until the end of his life and never managed to fit into the conservative mentality that conquered Europe in 1930ies.

First and foremost Johan Tobias Sergel was a sculptor. But he was also a masterly draughtsman. Passionate Lovers expresses Sergel’s exceptional capability to mediate the nerve of a certain situation or mood. It is indeed a piece of Swedish art history and…

A young man lies surrounded by mourning friends, with a look of suffering on his face. The mirror in his hand enhances the impression that he remains self-centred up to his last moment. The Dying Dandy is one of Dardel's most famous paintings. Althoug…

There are a number of versions of this painting by Guido Reni but this is considered to be the prototype. It is a classical baroque interpretation of an idealised human figure.

This masterpiece by the Maltese artist Giuseppe Cali is inspired by Orientalism, fashionable at the time, and represents an episode from the Great Siege of Malta (1565).

In this panoramic landscape characteristic of 19th century painting, two seemingly contradictory principles of been combined – the informative and the emotional. In this expansive story about the winding Gauja river and the most characteristic species of …

The impressive winter landscape once adorned the apartments of Emīlija Benjamiņa, the millionaire owner of the most popular newspaper “Jaunākās Ziņas”. However, during Soviet times the Benjamiņš house was the home of the Writers’ Union and in 1954 the org…

Turning to the themes of childhood and early adolescence as reflections of the spring of life and interest in the biological growing processes in both man and nature was a characteristic tendency in art at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th cen…

In his largest composition “Refugees”, modernist Jēkabs Kazaks who, “like the old masters, wanted to work hard like a craftsman”, expresses the nations tragedy with true severity. He reveals it as the harsh story of a peasant family driven from their home…

This painting by Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) is an explosion of colour in fiery red and cobalt blue, marking a break with his earlier work in a traditional naturalistic style, and signalling his first step towards abstraction. It was evening when Mondrian p…

The sculpture of Madonna (the figure of Jesus having been cut off) made in the international gothic style around 1410.

Pogled na Julijske Alpe s Triglavom iz Bohinja.

It is one of the oldest easel paintings in Lithuania, closely linked to Vytautas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania (reigning 1401-1430), and early Christianisation in Lithuania. Up until nowadays this image is considered to be miraculous and is an object of de…

Antanas Gudaitis is one of the most eminent Lithuanian painters of the 20th century. During 1926-1929 he had studied literature at Kaunas University. In the meantime he also attended Justinas Vienožinskis courses at Kaunas Art School. In 1929 he left Lith…

Pranas Domšaitis (Franz Domscheit) is one of the most famous painters of Lithuanian diaspora and arguably the most prominent Lithuanian expressionist. He was born in Lithuania Minor region in Prussia and graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Kö…

A project of the stained-glass window made by Stanisław Wyspiański for the window of the building of the Medical Society in Kraków. All internal decoration of the building was designed by the artist (the wall decorations and furniture included). Stanisław…

O Cancioneiro da Ajuda, originalmente conhecido como Cancioneiro do Colégio do Nobres, é a mais antiga compilação da produção lírica galego-portuguesa, conhecida. É constituído por 310 cantigas de amor, exclusivamente, de 38 autores diferentes, sendo o ún…

With this painting Dürer, then 28 years old, created one of the most unusual works in portraiture history. The frontality and the strong idealization are reminiscent of representations of Christ, both aspects however being inseparable from Dürer's ear…