Art History & Visual Analysis
ArtFX collects close readings of historical paintings — provenance, technique, symbolism, and visual analysis. Each entry draws on primary sources, museum catalogues, and the work of art historians, with high-resolution imagery for study.
Featured paintings
- Portrait of Cecilia de Madrazo Fortuny — Giovanni Boldini
- Invocation — Frederic Leighton
- Place des Pyramides — Giuseppe de Nittis
- The Monastery of the Caves near Nizhny Novgorod — Aleksey Savrasov
- The Letter of Introduction — Sir David Wilkie
Free tools
ArtFX also hosts a small set of free online art tools. They run in the browser and your images stay on your device.
Painting
Paint by Number Generator
A numbered grid and legend from any photo.
Color
Oil Paint Color Mixer
Amounts in %, mL or fl oz, mixed color as HEX, RGB, CMYK.
Drawing
AI Coloring Pages Generator
Describe a scene, get a line-art page to print.
Words
Artwork Name Generator
Ten title ideas per art category.
Practice
Visual Animal Generator
A random animal with its picture, category and one fact.
About
ArtFX is maintained as an independent reference for historical works of European painting from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Content is drawn from public-domain scholarship and the original artists' archives.