Explain art to me: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud

Pictures from the Middle Ages often show stories of people who intensively believed in God.

Painters often used to depict stories from the Bible, showing people as if they were living at the same time as the artist himself.

The painting by Max Liebermann shows life in the countryside.

How would you paint a sailboat?

People have always told dramatic stories to each other and sometimes they have carved or painted gods and heroes from marble

The paintings of the painter Odilon Redon often look like strange dreams

One of the most precious paintings from the Wallraf is called "Mary in the rose arbour".

The many fruits on this still life look delicious to bite into

Some of the most exciting buccaneer pictures come from Arnold Böcklin