Jacques Louis David – Propaganda Genius?
At university I studied mainly French 18th and early 19th century art and Jacques Louis David obviously featured quite strongly. By the …
A trip through Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris
This blog post was written by Ulrike Haussen, the picture researcher at akg-images in Paris responsible for the Les Arts Décoratifs collection. …
If you’re appy and you know it…
As soon as the iPad (mark one) was launched, it started appearing at trade fairs and conferences in the picture industry. It …
Torture on canvas – Titian’s „Flaying of Marsyas“
A few years back I went to one of those blockbuster exhibitions – paintings by Titian in the National Gallery in London. …
Face to Face – Renaissance in Berlin
I can’t remember an exhibition that has created quite as much interest as the Faces of the Renaissance which is on at …
I belong to London, and London belongs to me
My summer holiday suitcase usually contains: shorts, t-shirts, a beach towel, the highest-factor sun cream I can find… and a tower of …
Old Love
I’m in love. With a Renaissance man. Literally. Ever since I first laid eyes on Botticelli’s Young Man in the National …
Tales of the (still) divided city
The building of the Berlin Wall began 50 years ago this month and there is almost as many events commemorating that event …
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome…
Posts on the akg-images blog are written in German, French and English. If you would rather only see results in one language, …
Ch-ch-changes
It’s been a big week for comic book fans. First came the furore over the race and (possible) sexuality of a new …