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Winslow Homer’s The Country School, 1871, showing children studying at wooden desks in a rural American classroom with their teacher at the front.

Back to School with Winslow Homer

September 10, 2026
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtAmerican ArtTeaching Resources

Winslow Homer’s The Country School takes us back to an American classroom in 1871, revealing surprising similarities between schoolchildren then and children returning to school today.

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Pierre Bonnard’s La Rue. Homme aux prises avec deux chiens, circa 1895, showing a man struggling to control two dogs on a patterned Paris street.

Pierre Bonnard’s Paris

September 7, 2026
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtTeaching Resources

Pierre Bonnard transforms an ordinary Paris street into a lively study of movement, pattern and freedom as a man struggles to control two energetic dogs.

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Left: Glass paste mosaic clypeus showing a frontal portrait bust of Maria Simplicia Rustica, surrounded by concentric borders of coloured tesserae, around 350 AD. Right: Glass paste mosaic clypeus showing a frontal portrait bust of Flavius Iulius Iulianus, surrounded by concentric borders of coloured tesserae, about 350 AD.

Ciriaca’s Mosaics

September 3, 2026
by Amalia Spiliakou ArchaeologyByzantine ArtEarly Christian Art

Two remarkable Late Antique mosaics reveal the story of Maria Simplicia Rustica and her husband, offering a moving glimpse into love, loss and remembrance in ancient Rome.

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Left: Japanese lacquer inrō decorated with blooming chrysanthemums and asters in gold and coloured lacquer, Edo period, 18th–19th century. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Right: Japanese lacquer inrō featuring chrysanthemums and asters in delicate gold lacquer against a dark background, Edo period, 18th–19th century. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Autumn in the Palm of Your Hand: Asters, Chrysanthemums and Two Japanese Inrōs

August 31, 2026
by Amalia Spiliakou Japanese ArtTeaching Resources

Celebrate September through a beautiful Japanese lacquer inrō, where asters and chrysanthemums capture the quiet beauty of autumn in a masterpiece that fits in the palm of your hand.

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