Art history: artists, movements and museums

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer, the source for Banksy’s mural in Bristol
Banksy and Vermeer: contemporary covers of The Girl with a Pearl Earring
In Bristol, Banksy replaced Vermeer's pearl with a real alarm box. Sourced analysis of the authenticated fresco in 2014, its degradation and the anonymous mask added in 2020. Read more...
Salvador Dalí photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1939
Salvador Dalí and Vermeer: obsession, tributes and diversions
Vermeer was a declared reference by Salvador Dalí. From the painter transformed into a table to copies of The Lacemaker, then to its explosion in rhino horns, here are the... Read more...