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Audiences famously panicked at the sight of a train barreling toward the screen in the Lumière brothers’ Arrival of a Train ...
Forgotten about for years in a Connecticut barn, a painting from 17th century Dutch painter Frans Post fetched more than $7 million in a Sotheby's auction last month. "View of Olinda, Brazil, with the ...
Deep in the rolling hills of northern Italy, where ancient oak trees guard their precious underground treasures, a special ...
Inspired by an Italian film and rooted in a 19th-century novel, “Passion” tells the story of an army captain engaged in a ...
A bust attributed to Renaissance master Donatello has re-emerged in Slovakia after falling into obscurity following World War ...
In death, however, the 19th-century Habsburg monarch has joined ... “she was alone and could not manage.” A painting of Elisabeth on horseback in 1853 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons ...
The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...
They studied hundreds of historical texts and their mood boards took inspiration from Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s paintings of deities and affluent 19th-century families. Their most valuable ...
Eighty-six years after the adjacent Newark Museum of Art acquired the Washington Street ... Titled “Stay: The Black Women of 19th-Century Newark,” the exhibit focuses on three accomplished ...
For centuries, the Italian painter Cimabue has been ... noticed that areas of the gesso applied to the painting’s edges during a 19th-century conservation were lifting off the surface.
The sumptuous repeating patterns created by the chief founder of Britain’s 19th-century Arts and Crafts ... William Morris & Art from the Islamic World is the first exhibition to trace the ...
where she was officially presented with a gouache painting of the port of Stanley by the renowned Italian born 19th Century marine artist Eduardo De Martino. The artist, who visited the Falklands ...