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Posted: March 10th, 2010, 3:04am CST
A restorer using an ultra-violet light to expose greater details on a Giotto painting in the Peruzzi chapel at the Santa Croce church in Florence.
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Posted: March 9th, 2010, 4:48am CST
Restoration experts have used ultra violet rays to shed new light on masterpieces by one of the Western World's greatest painters.
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 9:46pm CST
A restorer uses an ultra-violet light to expose greater details on a Giotto painting in the Peruzzi Chapel at the Santa Croce Church in Florence.
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 6:16pm CST
Circa 1300, Giotto was the next big thing. Dante mentions him in The Divine Comedy as the artist who now "has the cry". He was more than a trendsetter: he was an original of the most radical type. He began the whole tradition of European painting, transforming it from the flatness of the Greek-Byzantine icon to the rounded solidity of a Roman statue. Realism is the word.
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 2:46pm CST
The steep hills, crisscrossing streets and clustered shops and restaurants in North Beach all reflect the urban delights that make San Francisco distinct. Yet, the level of comfort here reminds one of home, found simply by walking around the neighborhood, sitting in Washington Square or dining in a favorite quiet Italian restaurant.
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 12:57pm CST
* Ultra-violet light reveals centuries-old original details
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 11:40am CST
Restorers using ultra-violet rays have rediscovered rich original details of Giotto's paintings in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence's Santa Croce church that have been hidden for centuries.
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 3:22am CST
Restorers using ultra-violet rays have rediscovered rich original details of Giotto's paintings in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence's Santa Croce church that have been hidden for centuries.
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 1:25am CST
FLORENCE, March 8 — Restorers using ultra-violet rays have rediscovered rich original details of Giotto’s paintings in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence’s Santa Croce church that have been hidden for centuries. “We have uncovered a secret Giotto,” said Isabella Lapi Ballerini, head of Florence’s Opificio delle Pietre Dure, one of the world’s most prestigious art restoration laboratories. Last year ...
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Posted: March 7th, 2010, 2:16am CST
The steep hills, crisscrossing streets and clustered shops and restaurants in North Beach all reflect the urban delights that make San Francisco distinct. Yet, the level of comfort here reminds one of home, found simply by walking around the neighborhood, sitting in Washington Square or dining in a favorite quiet Italian restaurant.
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Posted: March 5th, 2010, 8:34pm CST
Andy Warhol, "The Last Supper", 1986. Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 78 x 306 inches. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Purchase with exchange funds from the Harry A. Bernstein Memorial Collection. Photo: Mitro Hood.
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Posted: March 4th, 2010, 6:19am CST
The problem Richard Hamilton has always faced is that everyone wants him to be Ricky. By which I mean, our Andy, as in, a British Andy Warhol . Hamilton was one of the first guys to collage consumer electronics and interior design and body-builders, remember?
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Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 12:40pm CST
As much curiosity has been dispensed on Amrita Sher-Gil after her death as in her 29-year-old lifetime, but these twin-set volumes of her correspondence, complete with annotations and notes by nephew Vivan Sundaram, come closest to what she might have considered an autobiography.
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Posted: February 26th, 2010, 3:03am CST
Creating a Tuscan look for your home.
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Posted: February 25th, 2010, 8:59am CST
Salon's news team provides minute-by-minute coverage and analysis of the White House healthcare summit
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Posted: February 23rd, 2010, 3:38pm CST
In the barbaric cave for the dead
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Posted: February 22nd, 2010, 5:22pm CST
SOUTHINGTON — Although Katie Kopcha has always enjoyed creating art, she didn’t decide to make a career of it until she was in her teens.
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Posted: February 21st, 2010, 9:22pm CST
SOUTHINGTON — Although Katie Kopcha has always enjoyed creating art, she didn’t decide to make a career of it until she was in her teens.
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Posted: February 21st, 2010, 4:02am CST
"In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people ... ." -- Woody Guthrie Herman Diedam was a German-born fresco artist who served a 12-year apprenticeship in his native land before immigrating to the United States in 1904. He brought his brushes with him. Eventually, Herman settled in Kentland and, by 1914, started his own company, redecorating churches and repainting statues. He taught his son ...
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Posted: February 20th, 2010, 1:12am CST
In this letter, I will write about the building in Washington, D.C. In 1793, when George Washington sanctioned the laying of the capitol building’s cornerstone, he did so wearing a Masonic apron emblazoned with the brotherhood’s symbols.
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Posted: February 19th, 2010, 10:36pm CST
Depiction of 'Creation of Adam' has been tagged repeatedly this month.
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Posted: February 19th, 2010, 6:57am CST
EUGENIA Vronskaya admits that initially she was a very reluctant Highlander. "I grew up in Moscow and then lived in London for seven or eight years. I couldn't imagine living in the middle of nowhere," she said.
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Posted: February 18th, 2010, 4:04am CST
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." -- Mother Teresa Diane Sprehe, pronounced "spray," is a humble, altruistic sort. She also is one those people who makes a mere mortal like myself scratch my noggin and ask: How does this woman accomplish so much? There are, after all, but 168 hours in a week. Sprehe, 53, and her husband, Carl, live in Cedar Lake and have raised five ...
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Posted: February 16th, 2010, 1:33am CST
USC inaugurated yet another laurel last Wednesday at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Actor Robert Redford received the USC School of Theatre's first Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists at a first-time gala, which drew 550 guests and netted $200,000 for theater scholarships.
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Posted: February 13th, 2010, 3:35pm CST
A new exhibition is set to challenge the prudish image of Queen Victoria by revealing she had a surprisingly keen interest in the naked body.
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Posted: February 12th, 2010, 9:27am CST
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Posted: October 8th, 2009, 7:16am CDT
Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The Louvre museum bought five ancient Egyptian mural paintings even though it knew they were stolen, Egypt’s top archaeologist said today, escalating his criticism of the French institution.
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Posted: October 7th, 2009, 11:31am CDT
Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Egypt suspended co-operation with the Louvre , saying the Paris museum refused to return four ancient Egyptian stelae stolen more than 20 years ago.
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Posted: October 7th, 2009, 10:34am CDT
Now’s a good time to visit the James A. Michener Art Museum.
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Posted: October 7th, 2009, 2:05am CDT
Bayview Thriftway, home of the Bayview School of Cooking, might have the nicest location of any supermarket in the world, and it tries to take advantage of that picturesque waterfront setting.
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Posted: October 6th, 2009, 8:04am CDT
An engineer thinks he can find Leonardo's largest commission.
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Posted: October 6th, 2009, 1:59am CDT
If you believe, as Maurizio Seracini does, that Leonardo da Vinci’s greatest painting is hidden inside a wall in Florence’s city hall, then there are two essential techniques for finding it. As usual, Leonardo anticipated both of them.
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Posted: October 5th, 2009, 9:36pm CDT
Leonardo da Vinci probably would have loved the use of scientific gadgetry to locate his lost masterpiece.
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Posted: October 5th, 2009, 11:27am CDT
The dust from an atomised passenger-jet engine; freeze-dried cow brain; the skull of a sperm whale; the face of Kenneth Williams – there is no shortage of curious sources for the artists on this year's Turner prize shortlist, work by whom goes on display at Tate Britain tomorrow.
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Posted: September 30th, 2009, 5:36pm CDT
Tom isn't feeling sorry for this trio of doofuses by Tom Danehy Three people for whom I don't feel sorry: • Plaxico Burress. The former New York Giants wide receiver, who caught the winning touchdown pass in the stunning Super Bowl win over the then-unbeaten New England Patriots a couple of years ago, was sentenced to two years in prison for gun-related crimes. He was taken immediately from the ...
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Posted: September 30th, 2009, 10:19am CDT
Now’s a good time to visit the James A. Michener Art Museum.
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Posted: September 30th, 2009, 7:16am CDT
Top galleries and museums from San Francisco to New York to London and Florence, Italy, exhibit David Ligare's paintings, and most of his works contain clearly recognizable objects.
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Posted: September 28th, 2009, 1:48pm CDT
“The Color of Mood,” oil on linen paintings, will be included in the exhibit of guest artist Deborah Paris on display from Sept. 29 through Oct. 22, according to Paris Junior College fine arts director, Cathie Tyler.
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Posted: September 28th, 2009, 8:03am CDT
WORCESTER - Holy Trinity Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in the cityand#8217;s Greendale section opened 15 years ago, but it was only recently that workers put the and#8220;finishing touchand#8221; to the facility.
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Posted: September 25th, 2009, 2:32pm CDT
“The Color of Mood,” oil on linen paintings, will be included in the exhibit of guest artist Deborah Paris on display from Sept. 29 through Oct. 22, according to Paris Junior College fine arts director, Cathie Tyler.
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Posted: September 24th, 2009, 11:47pm CDT
Najibullah Zazi is hauled away by the FBI in Aurora, Colo., last Saturday. (Photo: AP/The Denver Post) A terror suspect accused of plotting an attack in the U.S. bought bomb materials from beauty supply stores and urgently sought advice on homemade explosives days before he drove to New York from Colorado this month, according to court documents released Thursday.
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Posted: September 24th, 2009, 11:46pm CDT
Najibullah Zazi is hauled away by the FBI in Aurora, Colo., last Saturday. (Photo: AP/The Denver Post) A terror suspect accused of plotting an attack in the U.S. bought bomb materials from beauty supply stores and urgently sought advice on homemade explosives days before he drove to New York from Colorado this month, according to court documents released Thursday.
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Posted: September 24th, 2009, 11:46pm CDT
Najibullah Zazi is hauled away by the FBI in Aurora, Colo., last Saturday. (Photo: AP/The Denver Post) A terror suspect accused of plotting an attack in the U.S. bought bomb materials from beauty supply stores and urgently sought advice on homemade explosives days before he drove to New York from Colorado this month, according to court documents released Thursday.
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Posted: September 24th, 2009, 3:01pm CDT
“The Color of Mood,” oil on linen paintings, will be included in the exhibit of guest artist Deborah Paris on display from Sept. 29 through Oct. 22, according to Paris Junior College fine arts director, Cathie Tyler.
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Posted: September 24th, 2009, 12:32pm CDT
A re-created mural was revealed Wednesday on the lobby ceiling of the Empire State Building. (Photo: RJ Mickelson/amNY) Maybe when you work in the World’s Most Famous Building, the extraordinary becomes the mundane.
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Posted: September 24th, 2009, 12:31pm CDT
A re-created mural was revealed Wednesday on the lobby ceiling of the Empire State Building. (Photo: RJ Mickelson/amNY) Maybe when you work in the World’s Most Famous Building, the extraordinary becomes the mundane.
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Posted: September 23rd, 2009, 9:58pm CDT
The leaves are turning and there's a chill in the air. There's also a chill of excitement up your spine - the 2009-2010 musical performance season has begun.
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Posted: September 23rd, 2009, 1:23pm CDT
Three exhibitions rich in imagery and narrative open at the Weston In the Weston’s first exhibitions of the season, Ryan Mulligan, Casey Riordan Millard and Michael Sharber reinforce the overt qualities of fantasy and illustration in one another’s work, while also calling attention to more understated emo-aesthetics and pseudo-spirituality.
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Posted: September 23rd, 2009, 11:04am CDT
Now’s a good time to visit the James A. Michener Art Museum.
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Posted: September 23rd, 2009, 2:01am CDT
Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale National Art Festival to be Held January 30-31, 2010; Artist Applications Now Being Accepted. Popular Al Fresco Event to Showcase Over 100 National and International Artists.