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What’s not to love about a knight and a nude riding an eagle-headed horse as it leaps over a sea monster? The oddities of Johann Peter Krafft.

So much of the very best painterly talent in has been squandered...

Lost art by Dutch Architects: retrieved from the archives of Rotterdam’s Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Het Nieuwe Instituut is a cultural centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It...

The Art of Architecture. Imagined worlds: records from the archives of Rotterdam’s Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Het Nieuwe Instituut is a cultural centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It...

The artist, Alexandre Lunois lived & worked in the heart of Paris during La Belle Epoch, he re-invented the lithotint technique. Today he remains a vibrant ghost.

For someone who was right there at the centre of Belle Epoch...

The 4 Allegories of Karl von Blass and the century old story of his portrait of Laura Bernabo, the love he walked away from.

Born into a family of peasants living in Austria’s mountainous Tyrol region,...

The forgotten Finska Vyer birch bark album, by I.K Inha, 1892. Inside are raw natural landscape photographs of Finland. It won the 1st international photographic competion in Paris.

This wonderful object, a photo album entitled, Finska Vyer (Finnish Views) was...

Finland, 1906. An amateur photographer named Frans Nyberg takes 9 snaps in Helsinki. 9 pictures that lead to a life.

Released from the archives of the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland...

Around the world with the rare travel drawings by the American painter, Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). Found in the archives of the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

CHURCH’S PAINTINGS...

Jan Harmensz. Muller. The technically gifted and royally well connected master enrgraver of Haarlem.

A gifted engraver and draughtsman, Jan Harmensz. Muller (1571–1628) was the son...

Austere, evocative, beautiful. Obscure lost aesthetics from the journals of Gallerie Nazionali Italiane. 1894-1902.

Franz Kafka’s “fat brother’, Adelbert Stifter. The writer Thomas Mann said he was “one of the most peculiar, enigmatic, secretly audacious and strangely gripping storytellers in world literature.” His rarely seen paintings show he could paint a bit too.

Adalbert Stifter was an Austrian writer, painter and poet closely associated with...

Itō Jakuchū. Greengrocer, eccentric painter & Zen Buddhist koji. Influential and revered, he retired to a temple and his followers were still evolving his style 70 years he died.

During the mid-Edo period of 1603-1867, Japan sealed itself off from the...