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fromThe New Yorker
21 hours ago

The Violence in Vermeer

Vermeer's paintings served as safe havens amidst a backdrop of war and starvation, contrasting with modern acts of protest against art.
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 week ago

Rare Portraits Reveal How Elizabeth I Turned Image Into Power

Elizabeth I shaped her public image through portraiture, with a new exhibition showcasing her life and the Tudor era's artistic legacy.
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fromArtnet News
1 week ago

Were the Popes Art History's Ultimate Collectors? | Artnet News

Pope Urban VIII's patronage of Gian Lorenzo Bernini significantly shaped Baroque art and architecture in Rome during the 17th century.
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History
fromSmithsonian Magazine
1 month ago

Tudor Courtiers Exchanged Portrait Miniatures as Love Tokens. Centuries Later, New Research Is Unlocking the Secrets of These Intimate Artworks

Nicholas Hilliard, England's first internationally famous native-born artist, created exquisitely detailed miniature watercolor portraits on vellum that served as portable intimate keepsakes and diplomatic gifts in Elizabethan England.
fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

Rubens's Epic Medici Cycle Gets a Glow Up at the Louvre | Artnet News

The monumental suite was one of the Flemish master's most prestigious achievements, produced between 1622 and 1625 on commission for the French Crown.
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fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

Never-Before-Seen Paintings Reveal Anthony Van Dyck's Formative Italian Period | Artnet News

Van Dyck's stay in Italy was pivotal to the development of his artistic language, above all because it accelerated his emancipation from the model of his master Rubens.
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fromArtnet News
4 weeks ago

El Greco Painting Found Hidden Beneath a Forgery in the Vatican

A previously hidden El Greco painting titled The Redeemer from the 1590s was discovered in the Vatican after restorers removed a forged overpainting that had obscured the original work.
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 month ago

RENAISSANCE! The body as site - KALTBLUT Magazine

The body becomes a site of transformation. Uniquely crafted pieces engage with the wearer, blurring the line between material, form, and presence. Each one-off creation and streetwear capsule emerges from a conscious, boundary-free creative process, drawing inspiration from visual arts, theatre, music, dance, and the surrounding world.
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fromHyperallergic
4 weeks ago

Thomas Gainsborough's Portraits of Pride and Prejudice

Gainsborough's paintings aestheticize social hierarchy through fashion and landscape, making wealth and ownership appear beautiful and natural while obscuring their colonial and enslaved labor foundations.
US politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

Anne Boleyn painting is actually a different royal', claims historian

A 1584 portrait of Anne Boleyn was deliberately painted to resemble Elizabeth I to bolster Elizabeth's political legitimacy during a pivotal moment in her reign.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Trinity Fine Art Traces the Shift from Mannerism to Baroque at TEFAF

Fontana is a rare example of a woman Old Master, one of only a few who managed to attain career success on her own and was the first woman elected to the Academy of Saint Luke in Rome. This painting is one of the most ambitious from her early career. Reflecting visual references to Michelangelo-a departure from her usual reference to Correggio and Raphael-the vibrant hues and dramatic composition reflect prevailing Florentine trends of the late 16th century.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Annibale Carracci Should Be as Famous as Rembrandt van Rijn

Annibale Carracci, a 16th-century Italian artist, made groundbreaking contributions to Western art that rivaled Rembrandt's influence, including establishing an innovative art academy that revolutionized artistic training methods.
History
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

British Museum to keep pendant linked to Henry VIII

The British Museum raised £3.5m to acquire and permanently display the Tudor Heart gold pendant linked to Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon.
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Rediscovered Rembrandt Confirmed After Decades of Doubt | Artnet News

Advanced imaging and material analysis have led experts to reattribute a long-overlooked biblical scene to Rembrandt van Rijn, identifying the 1633 painting as a lost masterpiece after more than six decades of doubt. Titled Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, the work was last studied in 1960, when scholars ruled out the possibility that it could be by the Dutch master.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Fra Angelico Etched the Divine in Stone

Fra Angelico repeatedly incorporated veined marble and stone motifs into his paintings to convey layered theological and mystical symbolism tied to Dominican and Franciscan spirituality.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

AI analysis casts doubt on Van Eyck paintings in Italian and US museums

An analysis of two paintings in museums in the US and Italy by the 15th-century Flemish artist Jan van Eyck has raised a profound question: what if neither were by Van Eyck? Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, the name given to near-identical unsigned paintings hanging in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Royal Museums of Turin, represent two of the small number of surviving works by one of western art's greatest masters, revered for his naturalistic portraits and religious subjects.
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fromArtnet News
2 months ago

Van Eyck Attribution Dispute Pits Art Historians Against A.I. Firm | Artnet News

Once again, A.I. and human experts are butting heads over the authenticity of a world-famous painting. A Belgian art historian has refuted claims made by Swiss company Art Recognition that two paintings have been falsely attributed to the Northern Renaissance master Jan van Eyck. The paintings in question are versions of Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata (ca. 1428-32) belonging to the Royal Museums of Turin and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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fromArtnet News
2 months ago

Long-Lost Portrait by a Renaissance Trailblazer Resurfaces

A 1552 portrait by Sofonisba Anguissola, long thought lost, was rediscovered and is exhibited at the Winter Show via dealer Robert Simon.
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