Mysterious heist of famous portrait solved 70 years later — and it was all for curtains
The painting’s disappearance from its UK estate wasn’t noticed until six years later when a duchess saw it on display at a ...
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Leonardo da Vinci's Famous Paintings & Drawings
Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona Lisa, as well as his drawings and unfinished works. In 1517, Leonardo showed a visitor a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a ...
Art historian solves riddle behind theft of famous portrait
The 70-year mystery surrounding the theft of an original oil sketch by renowned Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck from a ...
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Portrait Artist of the Year
Stephen Mangan launches a new search for a star portrait artist, alongside returning judges, artist Tai Shan Schierenberg, independent curator Kathleen Soriano and art historian Kate Bryan.
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See the Iconic Self-Portraits of the Woman Who Made Bettie Page Famous
Beginning Saturday, July 25, Yeager’s work—including hand-painted photographs of Page, a variety of self-portraits ... an influence on a generation of artist-photographers including Diane ...
Portrait of mystery woman found beneath famous Pablo Picasso painting, conservators say
A portrait of a mystery woman was found beneath Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto" by the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
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CASEY: Artist wraps up local portrait series, ‘A Thread Through Roanoke’
Of the 10 portraits by Roanoke artist Whitney Brock, nine feature community leaders from the Roanoke Valley. The tenth ...
Portrait of mystery woman found beneath famous Pablo Picasso painting, conservators say
The Courtauld Institute of Art, a specialist college ... very first paintings from his famous Blue Period. The conservators took x-ray and infrared images of "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de ...