When we admire great works of art, we rarely think about who the people depicted on the paintings are. Behind some famous ...

Since time immemorial, humans have used art ... s ‘Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear’. It was painted after he cut off a part of his own ear following a fight with another famous painter ...

Picasso's earliest painting, done when he was 9 years old, shows the quixotic figure of a Picador ... but Dalí's earliest picture shows the solid art-historical foundation of his singular vision. It ...

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous ... portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a well-to-do Florentine silk merchant, a commission from 14 years earlier. At the time, she had been 24 years ...

The piece recreates the famous Leonardo da Vinci twice over ... “Art About Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings” is on view at Art on Hulfish in Princeton, New ...

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