‘Queen Mariana of Austria’: Diego Velázquez’s Monumental Portrait of a Monarch
The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, ...
Long-Buried Secret Exposed Under 16th-Century Titian Painting Of Jesus
Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...
X has been used to represent love and kisses for centuries. But how did it start?
While the origins of the cross as a kiss are still debated, the answer likely lies in the letters of working-class lovers ...
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Rubens is a titan of Western art. The task of restoring his paintings is equally gigantic
In the case of a massive Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece in the artist's Belgian hometown, the studio had to be taken to the painting. In the largest room of Antwerp's Royal Fine Arts Museum ...