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Pablo Picasso and artworks

Victoria Charles

Pablo Picasso and artworks

Victoria Charles

Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy...

Joseph Mallord William Turner and artworks

Eric Shanes

Joseph Mallord William Turner and artworks

Eric Shanes

At fifteen, Turner was already exhibiting View of Lambeth. He soon acquired the reputation of an immensely clever watercolourist. A disciple of Girtin and Cozens, he showed in his choice and prese...

Frida Kahlo and artworks

Gerry Souter

Frida Kahlo and artworks

Gerry Souter

Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we lea...

Leonardo da Vinci and artworks

Gabriel Séailles

Leonardo da Vinci and artworks

Gabriel Séailles

Leonardo’s early life was spent in Florence, his maturity in Milan, and the last three years of his life in France. Leonardo’s teacher was Verrocchio. First he was a goldsmith, then a painter ...

Michelangelo and artworks

Eugène Müntz

Michelangelo and artworks

Eugène Müntz

Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. ...

Georgia O'Keeffe and artworks

Janet Souter

Georgia O'Keeffe and artworks

Janet Souter

In 1905 Georgia travelled to Chicago to study painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907 she enrolled at the Art Students’ League in New York City, where she studied with William Merritt ...

John Singer Sargent and artworks

Donald Wigal

John Singer Sargent and artworks

Donald Wigal

Sargent was born in Florence, in 1856, the son of cultivated parents. When Sargent entered the school of Carolus-Duran he attained much more than the average pupils. His father was a retired Massa...

Egon Schiele and artworks

Jeanette Zwingenberger / Ashley Bassie / Ether Selsdon

Egon Schiele and artworks

Jeanette Zwingenberger / Ashley Bassie / Ether Selsdon

Egon Schiele’s work is so distinctive that it resists categorisation. Admitted to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts at just sixteen, he was an extraordinarily precocious artist, whose consummate s...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir and artworks

Natalia Brodskaya

Pierre-Auguste Renoir and artworks

Natalia Brodskaya

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges on 25 February 1841. In 1854, the boy’s parents took him from school and found a place for him in the Lévy brothers’ workshop, where he was to learn ...

Diego Rivera and artworks

Gerry Souter

Diego Rivera and artworks

Gerry Souter

They met in 1928, Frida Kahlo was then 21 years old and Diego Rivera was twice her age. He was already an international reference, she only aspired to become one.An intense artistic creation, alon...

Roses

Claude Antoine Thory / Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Roses

Claude Antoine Thory / Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Mega Square Roses presents the large number of different species of this unique flower, which is charged with so many feelings and imbued with powerful cultural significance. Because of the rose�...

Sculpture 120 illustrations

Victoria Charles

Sculpture 120 illustrations

Victoria Charles

Mega Square Sculpture spans over 23,000 years and over 120 examples of the most beautiful sculptures in the world: from prehistoric art and Egyptian statues to the works of Michelangelo, Henry Moo...

Claude Monet and artworks

Natalia Brodskaya

Claude Monet and artworks

Natalia Brodskaya

For Claude Monet the designation ‘impressionist’ always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true impressionist t...

Raphael and artworks

Eugene Müntz

Raphael and artworks

Eugene Müntz

Raphael was the artist who most closely resembled Pheidias. The Greeks said that the latter invented nothing; rather, he carried every kind of art invented by his forerunners to such a pitch of pe...

Auguste Rodin and artworks

Rainer Maria Rilke

Auguste Rodin and artworks

Rainer Maria Rilke

Influenced by the masters of Antiquity, the genius of Michelangelo and Baroque sculpture, particularly of Bernini, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is one of the most renowned artists in history. Though ...

Vincent Van Gogh and artworks

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh and artworks

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunder...

Paul Klee and artworks

Donald Wigal

Paul Klee and artworks

Donald Wigal

An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland. From the vibrant Blaue Reiter movement to Surrealism at th...

Alphonse Mucha and artworks

Patrick Bade

Alphonse Mucha and artworks

Patrick Bade

Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplici...

Natural Curiosities

Alfred Russel Wallace

Natural Curiosities

Alfred Russel Wallace

Reflecting their owner’s taste and serving as an impressive exhibition space for visitors, cabinets of curiosities were a place of interest in the houses of the wealthy in the 16th an 17th centu...

Louis Comfort Tiffany and artworks

Charles De Kay

Louis Comfort Tiffany and artworks

Charles De Kay

A jeweler with an established reputation through the world, Louis Comfort Tiffany was the spearhead of the Art Nouveau movement in the United States. At a time and in a country in perpetual growth...