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Paul Gauguin plays the harmonium without trousers at Alphonse Mucha's in 1893
What to Do of an Evening in Paris? Paul Gauguin, trouserless, plays the harmonium at a house party at Alphonse Mucha's; the year is 1893
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Spiritual Scene
Spiritual Scene. Giacomo Balla (1871–1958), one of the founders of Italian Futurism, 1925
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An Everyday Sight of the Eighteenth Century: A Shoe Seller with Her Samples
Faith · Art · Science · Nature
In the Middle Ages the rabbit was linked with virgin conception
In the Middle Ages the rabbit was linked with virgin conception. It is no accident that the rabbit appears in the iconography of the Virgin, for instance beside Titian's Madonna. It was believed that a doe rabbit could produce young without mating with a male; this notion in
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The artist Vyacheslav Sysoyev (1937-2006)
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Hermes Putting On His Sandals
Sir William Blake Richmond, 1886
Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Drive out Cupid's lust with all your might, or Venus will seize your blinded soul
The inscription on Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Venus and Cupid" in the Hermitage collection. Cranach's Venus, painted in 1509, is the first female nude in the history of German painting, Eve excepted.
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Illustrations of craftsmen from a fifteenth-century manuscript commissioned by the Mendel family of Nuremberg, founders of an almshouse for elderly masters
Illustrations of craftsmen from a fifteenth-century manuscript commissioned by the Mendel family of Nuremberg, founders of an almshouse for elderly masters. Later, other families who owned workshops also commissioned similar registers of their craftsmen. The mail-maker bends wire, while a finished shirt of mail hangs limp on the
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X-rays reveal a portrait of Miró's mother by Cristòfol Monserrat beneath his abstract painting
An X-ray of Joan Miró's painting Pintura ("Painting", 1925–1927) has shown that it was painted over a portrait of the artist's mother, writes Artguide. In recent examinations using X-rays, specialists discovered beneath the paint layer of the work a portrait of
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Norman Rockwell’s 1951 painting “Spirit of Kansas City” and the fortunes of the city
This painting by Norman Rockwell looks as though he were depicting a builder of communism as the builders saw themselves. But no: the work of 1951 is called “The Spirit of Kansas City”. An aeroplane flies calmly through the sky, while a man stands confidently on the ground. Legs planted
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Stephen Meisel's masterly Napoleonic campaign for Dolce&Gabbana FW2006, styled by Brana Wolf
Stephen Meisel's masterly Napoleonic campaign for Dolce&Gabbana FW2006, styled by Brana Wolf. The cast of models is stellar, though not one of them was ever crowned. Gemma Ward, Julia Stegner, Iselin Steiro, Snejana Onopka, Ines Krnokrak, Coco Rocha, Lily Donaldson, Morgane Dubled, Catherine Balf, Chad Dunn,
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Painting by Lavinia Fontana found in storage of a museum in northern France
In the storeroom of a small museum in northern France, a painting by the Renaissance artist Lavinia Fontana has been found. The picture had been lying about in storage for the past 150 years. Fontana is considered one of the first professional women artists in Europe, and the discovery of