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A familiar face in the painting "The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin" by Jan van Eyck, 1435
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Ernest Pignon-Ernest and his socially engaged street art in France since the 1960s
Works by the French artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest, a member, incidentally, of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts in the painting section. Pignon-Ernest is considered one of the founders of street art in France. Since the 1960s he has placed his works in the urban setting, among small architectural
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Night Visions, René Magritte
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A lemon or an orange in Jan Davidsz de Heem's painting of 1665
A magnificent lemon, if we trust the title of the painting, or an orange, if we trust our own eyes. By the master of the Golden Age of Dutch painting Jan Davidsz. de Heem, 1665 Have you ever seen a fruit peeled in so unusual a fashion?
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Van Gogh's portrait of a baby sold in 2015 for 7.6 million dollars
What a lovely child! Is it a boy? It's a Van Gogh. In 2015 this child was sold for 7.6 million dollars
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Holbein exhibition opens at Buckingham Palace on 10 November, with more than 100 works by the royal painter on show
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Jupiter, Mercury and Virtue
A painting by the Italian artist Dosso Dossi, 1523-24. While Jupiter paints butterflies, that is, creates all that exists, his son, the light and nimble Jupiter in a diadem and winged sandals, gestures to Virtue for silence.
NB! · Art · Museums · Paris
In 1855 the painter Victor Navlet did not merely fly over Paris in a hot-air balloon but recorded the view of the city in minute detail on an enormous seven-metre canvas, "View of Paris from a Balloon", now on display at the Musée d'Orsay
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An Unexpected Subject for Salvador Dalí: The Walls of Babylon
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The most expensive painting in the history of Latin American art: "Diego and I" by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo
The most expensive painting in the history of Latin American art is "Diego and I" by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. In November 2021 the picture was sold at Sotheby's in New York for 34.9 million US dollars. The previous record belonged to "Rivals&
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A Little Dog, Biscotti and a Chinese Cup on the Scarlet Tablecloth
A little dog, biscotti and a Chinese cup on the scarlet tablecloth. The flies, quite rightly, decided there could be no better place for a rendezvous and for the delivery of a letter. Thanks for this picture go to the seventeenth-century Italian painter Giovanna Garzoni