Creative

We didn’t think that this issue would be complete without these stunningly surreal oil paintings by Nebraska artist Kristin Kwan—that gleaming unicorn, those sprays of delicate shrooms, and that gorgeous girl weeping pearly tears...

by Yinsey Wang and Hajnalka Berényi-Kiss of Heroines & Muses Model: Yinsey Wang @tornandpolished Make-up: Jennifer Brillante @brijance.makeupartist Hair and make-up: Nina Willenpart @stylingsbynina, @shadesbynina Retouching assistant: Julia Lomaka @julia_lomaka_retoucher Photographer/Creative Direction/Post-production and retouching: Hajnalka Berényi-Kiss @heroinesandmuses In Renaissance-era portrayals...

Portrayals of angels abound in popular culture. With compelling personalities and forceful wills, angels appear as heroes and villains in books and film and on television, interacting with humans as friends, antagonists, allies, even...

So we think these captures of Italian model-artist Emanuele Zappariello by Polish artist Agnieszka Lorek could have been lifted from some cobweb-covered Renaissance-era masterpiece hidden away in an Italian castle somewhere. Don’t you? Who...

We felt that this issue could not possibly be complete without the work of Chicago artist Brooke Hummer, who pays homage to the glories of art history as well as the modern—and glam, and...

They had names like Sofonisba and Lavinia and most of all Artemisia. They were brilliant and gifted and (sometimes) ferocious—because they had to be, sure, and perhaps also because they wanted to be. They were...

On these pages we feature all manner of iconic, dramatic, thunderous art—from gossamer-gowned goddesses to avenging Biblical heroines, high-minded (yet questionable) angels to the occasional rakish courtier, and more. But we’d also like to...

ELIZABETH EBSWORTH PHOTOGRAPHY Her oath unbroken, sacrifice unspoken, She hails the coming of winter. The rule was golden, the summer beholden, Until the green began to redden and crisp. Barren the earth will become, And so she returns,...

Enchanted Living: You say that you create spirit guardians in the form of handmade ceramic animals. Can you describe what a spirit guardian is? Janine Hardy: A spirit guardian is a mystical being, often depicted...

A quick scroll through Tuesday Riddell’s Instagram feed will yield brief yet dizzying captions like these: “birds decorating branches with foxglove flowers,” “raindrop-laced web,” “cluster of ladybirds hibernating in the curl of an autumn...