Did you know that in Las Meninas the king and queen only appear in a mirror? That Goya painted Saturn on the walls of his house and never meant to exhibit it? That the village in The Starry Night could not be seen from Van Gogh's window?
Every day, ArtTale tells you the story of one masterpiece of painting. Then it shows it to you detail by detail, guided by the painter. A new way into art history and the famous paintings everyone knows without knowing what they say.
THE WORK OF THE DAY
Each morning, a famous painting and the story behind it: who painted it, for whom, what was going on and why it still matters. A five-minute read.
DETAIL-BY-DETAIL TOURS
The tour zooms in on every corner of the painting: the mirror in Las Meninas, the moon in The Starry Night, the creatures of The Garden of Earthly Delights. The painter appears beside you and explains what you are looking at. Details most people miss, even in the museum.
FACT-CHECKED STORIES
Every story is checked against museum and art-historian sources. No legends presented as facts: when something is a hypothesis, we say so.
99 MASTERPIECES OF ART HISTORY
Leonardo da Vinci, Velázquez, Goya, Van Gogh, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Monet, Klimt, Botticelli, Bosch, Caravaggio, Munch, Hokusai and many more.
MY MUSEUM
Save your favourite details and hang them in your own gallery, in gilded frames.
COLLECTIONS AND SEASONS
Essentials, Renaissance masters, women who changed art… And every month a new season, like "Fear in art" in October.
HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Pick an emotion and ArtTale suggests the painting that captures it best.
REVIEW, SEALS AND STREAKS
A quiz on the details you have already seen, so they stay with you. Earn bronze, silver and gold seals, and keep your streak going with your museum pass.
ARTTALE PLUS
Today's work and those from the last seven days are always free. ArtTale Plus unlocks the whole archive, every collection and every tour, with no ads.
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A famous painting a day: its true story, told detail by detail by the painter