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The Greatest Female Painter of All Time (opens the original)
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In 1612, a painter in Rome sat down to write to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany about his teenage daughter. She had been training in his workshop for only a few years, he explained, and she had already become:So skilled that I dare say she has no equal today.Proud fathers tend to exaggerate...His daughter was Artemisia Gentileschi, and she had been producing professional work since the age of fifteen, painting with the stark chiaroscuro and unidealized naturalism of Caravaggio, the most revolutiona
The Story Behind the Masterpiece (opens the original)
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Pablo Picasso once said:Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.Something I have always found interesting about paintings is how easy it is to forget that there was a human being behind them. Maybe it is because they can seem almost too beautiful to be real, as if they came from somewhere supernatural. But every artwork hanging in every museum in the world was made by a real person, on a real day, in the middle of a real life, a life with money troubles, love affairs, grief, ambition and
The Most Beautiful Paintings Lost to History (opens the original)
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On the morning of August 21, 1911, a man walked into the Louvre, lifted a painting off the wall, tucked it under his coat, and walked out. For more than two years, the Mona Lisa was gone. The museum shut for a week, and when it reopened, people came in the thousands just to stare at the four empty hooks where she had hung.Grown men wept in front of the bare wall. The investigation got so desperate the police even questioned Picasso. And when she finally turned up in a Florence hotel room in 1913
The Greatest Painters You've Never Heard Of (opens the original)
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Vincent van Gogh: He Never Knew We Loved Him (opens the original)
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