6 most famous self-portraits in art history
Since time immemorial, humans have used art, skills, and creativity to send out messages. From the early caveman who drew a ...
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Are Hairstyles the Key to Unlocking Art History’s Most Famous Portraits?
Grand portraiture is a minefield for some noteworthy hair. Portraitists such as Thomas Gainsborough and Anthony Van Dyck paid ...
Famous Henry VIII portrait on display at Hartford museum
A museum in Hartford is now featuring a famous portrait of Henry VIII. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art said Hans Holbein ...
How an art historian solved the 70-year-mystery behind the theft of a famed portrait
Artwork by renowned Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck was stolen from a stately home 70 years ago – because the thief wanted ...
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Victorian Era Paintings: Understanding Early Contemporary Art
The Victorians saw the world changing. New technologies changed how we made and bought goods and Victorian era paintings show ...
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Artist draws famous portraits on eggs
Artist Guan Qingsheng from China uses a pencil, knife and a piece of wire to engineer life-like portraits of famous people on chicken eggs. The 62-year-old artist used to work as a designer at a ...
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See the Iconic Self-Portraits of the Woman Who Made Bettie Page Famous
"How I Photograph Myself," a retrospective of pin-up photographer Bunny Yeager's work, opens July 25 at Hollywood's Gavlak Gallery When nude photographer Eleanor “Bunny” Yeager discovered ...
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Mysterious heist of famous portrait solved 70 years later — and the motive was curtains
The oil sketch “Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz ... a senior lecturer in art history and visual culture at the University of Exeter, said in a March 18 news release announcing her research ...