The Crocker Art Museum is a museum in Sacramento, California; one of the largest museums in the Western United States (formerly the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery). It displays works from the Gold Rush era to the present day. In 1869, banker and landowner Edwin Bryant Crocker and his wife Margaret Crocker began collecting paintings […]
In the Uffizi Gallery (Florence, Italy), one of the most visited masterpieces of the Renaissance remains Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1445-1510). The painting by the unsurpassed master of the Italian Early Renaissance was painted between 1483 and 1485. For nearly 3 centuries it was not appreciated, mainly because of religious taboos, fascination with […]
The most famous painting of the Renaissance is Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503 – 1519). He was a great experimenter in various fields – science, art, mechanics, astronomy and more. It is difficult to overestimate the influence of this great Italian artist on the development of world painting. The main masterpiece that draws millions […]