Red stripes in Bacon Hole cave in Wales identified as rock art over 17,000 years old

In Bacon Hole Cave in South Wales, red horizontal bands have been recognised as a cave painting more than 17,000 years old. They were found as long ago as 1912, but in 1928 they were written off as a natural seepage of iron oxide, and for almost a century the bands passed for an ordinary natural stain. Uranium-thorium analysis, however, has revealed pigment applied with a finger. It turns out that a specimen of Britain's most ancient art has spent a hundred years listed as a defect of the rock

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The Betrothal Feast in Vlas Doroshevich's Satirical Novel “Mu-Xiang”

They were served stewed spoiled eggs, roast suckling pig, seaweed, ginger preserve, goose livers, shark-fin soup with crab roe, toasted almonds, soup with pigeon eggs, ham and chicken, boiled young bamboo, green peas, boiled chicken with bamboo shoots, bird's-nest soup with eggs and ham, fried frogs

Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

"Madonna with Cherubim" was long considered the work of Giovanni Bellini, until in 1885, during restoration, features characteristic of his chief rival, and incidentally his relative, Andrea Mantegna, came to light. What misled viewers was a softness uncharacteristic of Mantegna. Despite the established title, the Madonna and Child

Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

The silliest thing about this renaming is its poor timing. For when the Pushkin Museum was offered, as a gift, the greatest collection of contemporary art of the second half of the twentieth century, the collection of Peter Ludwig, the very reason for the refusal was the condition that the

Red stripes in Bacon Hole cave in Wales identified as rock art over 17,000 years old

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The Betrothal Feast in Vlas Doroshevich's Satirical Novel “Mu-Xiang”

Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

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