Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Monday, October 8, 2018

Book Review: This Is How The Mona Lisa Was Saved During World War Two

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A new book reveals how Jacques Jaujard worked out a modus vivendi with the Nazis of civil co-existence which helped him to oversee the evacu...
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Sunday, March 4, 2018

3000 Years Of Art In Just 3 Minutes

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Kotte: 3000 years of art in just three minutes This short film from 1968, set to Classical Gas, shows 3000 years of fine art in just th...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Australian Aboriginal Rock Art Is 28,000 Years Old

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Art on the ceiling of the shelter Narwala Gabarnmang. Credit: University of Southern Queensland Aboriginal Rock Art Is 28,000 Years Old -- C...

The World's Oldest Cave Art

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A look inside the Altamira Cave in northern Spain Red Dot Becomes 'Oldest Cave Art' -- BBC Red dots, hand stencils and animal figure...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Were Neanderthals The First Cave Painters?

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In El Castillo cave, hand stencils join a red disk (not pictured) that may be Earth's oldest cave art. Photograph courtesy Pedro Saura v...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Location Of Lost Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Found?

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Threading the endoscope into the Vasari wall to find signs of the lost Leonardo painting "The Battle of Anghiari" in Florence'...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

View the World's Art Without Leaving Home

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From ABC News: Google Partners With 17 International Museums for Art Project. Next time you want to get yourself some culture, you won't...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Six Ways That Artists Hack Your Brain

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From New Scientist: Since humankind first put brush to canvas, artists have played with the mind and the senses to create sublime atmosphere...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Lasers Lift Dirt Of Ages From Artworks

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The angel on the right of the wall painting has been partially cleaned with a laser From The BBC: Physicists have applied the same laser tec...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Computer Algorithm Identifies Authentic Van Gogh

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From Science Daily: Science Daily (Dec. 21, 2009) — Igor Berezhnoy of Tilburg University in the Netherlands has developed computer algorithm...
Saturday, November 28, 2009

Da Vinci's 'Last Supper' Gets Digital Makeover

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The bright, vivid colors of the original Last Supper appear in this digital reconstruction. Courtesy of Leonardo3 From Discovery News: Mode...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Unique Painting Of A Medici Lord Found

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Photo: A depiction of an Italian nobleman holding a gold watch attributed to Tommaso Manzuoli Science Museum Unearths Unknown Portrait Of M...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Finger Points To New Da Vinci Art

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From BBC: A new Leonardo da Vinci portrait may have been discovered after a fingerprint found on it seemed similar to another discovered on ...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

PICTURES: Prehistoric European Cave Artists Were Female

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From National Geographic: June 16, 2009--Inside France's 25,000-year-old Pech Merle cave, hand stencils surround the famed "Spotted...
Monday, May 18, 2009

Venus figurine sheds light on origins of art by early humans

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The figurine, found in 2008 in a cave in Schelklingen, southern Germany is thought to be the world's oldest reproduction of a human. Dan...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Obsession With Naked Women Dates Back 35,000 Years

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Side and front views of the Venus of Hohle Fels. Credit: H. Jensen; Copyright University of Tubingen From Live Science: If human culture see...
Friday, September 26, 2008

Van Gogh Painting Uncovered By New Xray Machine

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Rolling back the centuries: Dr Karen Rickers, above, fires the accelerator From The Telegraph: A new technique promises to reveal hundreds o...