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The incident at the Uffizi Galleries is the latest in a series of tourist-related accidents at museums around the world. Now, ...
Three summer exhibitions—at the Morgan Library, the Met and the Park Avenue Armory—shine a light on the work of pioneering ...
A rare Tudor portrait has been unveiled at one of Kent’s castles today. The painting of William Carey, husband of Mary Boleyn ...
Portrait of Mehmed the Conqueror by Gentile Bellini, 1480. Constantine Palaiologos was the last Byzantine emperor. Credit: Public Domain. Shortly before the fall, Palaiologos visited Hagia Sophia, ...
Here are 25 royal family portraits from the 1930s to now. Members of the British royal family surely have many talents, but if there's one skill they've mastered, it's posing for pictures.
BOSTON — “Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is an exhibition about human rapport. A sort of boutique blockbuster — if such a thing is possible — it ...
Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 self-portrait is the star of an exhibition in Milledgeville, Ga. She “stares at us with the deadpan of a Byzantine saint, a golden sun hat engulfing her head like a ...
The portrait of the emperor is deemed realistic by experts at the Greek Ministry of Culture. (Photo: Greek Ministry of Culture) Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown ...
The portrait of the emperor is deemed realistic (not idealized) by experts at the Greek Ministry of Culture. | Courtesy Greek Ministry of Culture Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a ...
The Family Portrait. Created by AI In the middle of the large group sits and old man, wizened and wrinkled, looking slightly confused at all of the hubbub surrounding him, but still he is smiling.
From Greece comes the discovery of the first-ever portrait of the last-ever Byzantine Emperor, Constantine XI Phalaiologos. Discovered at a monastery Constantine’s brothers once patronized, it ...
Important find in Greece, where a unique piece of Byzantine history has been unearthed: a portrait of thelast emperor of the East, Constantine XI Paleologus (Constantinople, 1405 - 1453), the ...