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Posted: October 30th, 2008, 9:51am CDT
Byzantium at the Royal Academy , in London, is a mind-expanding exhibition. It's the kind of exhibition the Royal Academy has always done superbly, shatteringly well - the colossal blockbuster that lets you encounter the treasures of an entire civilisation in one go.
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Posted: October 30th, 2008, 9:51am CDT
Byzantium at the Royal Academy , in London, is a mind-expanding exhibition. It's the kind of exhibition the Royal Academy has always done superbly, shatteringly well - the colossal blockbuster that lets you encounter the treasures of an entire civilisation in one go.
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Posted: October 26th, 2008, 1:43am CDT
Italian-Americans of a certain age might remember a family ritual that took place every year in the waning days of summer.
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Posted: October 25th, 2008, 3:50pm CDT
Janardhan Roye goes through Montmartre through rose-tinted glasses. Early on a September morning, an efficient Métro hauled us northwards, across the Seine to the hilly Montmartre area.
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Posted: October 25th, 2008, 10:46am CDT
With achievements ranging from the design of the mighty dome of St Peters to the painting of the vast fresco cycle in the Sistine Chapel, not to mention the beautiful, homoerotic statue of David, it seems fair to describe Michelangelo as one of the greatest artists the world has ever known.
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Posted: October 25th, 2008, 10:46am CDT
With achievements ranging from the design of the mighty dome of St Peters to the painting of the vast fresco cycle in the Sistine Chapel, not to mention the beautiful, homoerotic statue of David, it seems fair to describe Michelangelo as one of the greatest artists the world has ever known.
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Posted: October 25th, 2008, 3:53am CDT
SACRAMENTO — Miloje Milinkovic has spent the past 12 years working by himself, but he is never alone. Day after day, for many of those years, he has stood on a shaky 15-foot-high scaffolding at St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in Jackson, painting images from the Gospels.
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Posted: October 24th, 2008, 9:57pm CDT
OMAHA, NE.- Considered the greatest and most influential Mexican artist of the 20th century, Diego Rivera (1886–1957) was a central force in the development of a national art in Mexico throughout his life and had a profound effect on the international art world.
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Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 2:05am CDT
The 13th-century master who painted what has been listed by UNESCO as one of the world's finest collections of medieval frescoes at the Boyana church on the outskirts of Sofia has finally been identified.
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Posted: October 1st, 2008, 9:10am CDT
Officials in Ostia Antica hope that the decade-long restoration of four dwellings will focus new attention on this once-bustling port west of Rome.