Léon Bakst revolutionized theatrical design with vibrant colours, exotic motifs, and unified aesthetics, transforming stage productions into harmonious works of art that continue to inspire students and modern designers alike.
The Stavelot Triptych in the Morgan Library
The Stavelot Triptych unites Byzantine and Romanesque traditions, blending Eastern symbolism with Western narrative, while its precious materials and relics embody artistic exchange, spiritual devotion, and the cultural dialogue of the 12th century.
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun with Her Daughter Julie
Inspired by Augusta Davies Webster, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun captures tender motherhood in her portraits with Julie, where intimacy, warmth, and emotional truth redefine maternal love in late Rococo art.
Giorgone’s Madonna Cook
Encountering Giorgione’s elusive Madonna Cook, I was struck by its quiet poetry—where soft light, sparse landscape, and tender intimacy reveal the mystery and innovation of Venetian painting at its finest.
The Bersha Procession
The Bersha Procession captivates with refined craftsmanship and vivid detail, transforming humble wood into a lively vision of ritual, devotion, and daily life in ancient Egypt’s afterlife beliefs.
May Day on Corfu by Charlambos Pachis
Charalambos Pachis’s May Day on Corfu captures festive tradition with vivid colour and lively detail, preserving a joyful ethnographic moment of music, ritual, and community spirit on the island.
Lekythos in the Canellopoulos Museum
The white-ground lekythos from the Canellopoulos Museum distils grief into image and gesture, where mourning, memory, and the inevitability of death converge in the quiet language of Athenian ritual art.
Flora
The fresco of Flora from Stabiae captures Toru Dutt’s floral rivalry in paint, transforming myth into elegance, where spring, beauty, and nature’s abundance merge in delicate harmony.
Holy Thursday – Μεγάλη Πέμπτη
El Greco’s Agony in the Garden translates the moment of Luke 22:42–44 into visionary intensity, where Christ’s solitary prayer, fractured space, and radiant light express divine submission and human anguish with extraordinary emotional force.
April by Lucien Pissarro
Lucien Pissarro’s April, Epping translates Browning’s longing for England into paint, where light-dappled foliage, fresh colour, and broken brushwork evoke an intimate, lived experience of spring in the English countryside.