Why is Salvator Mundi called the most controversial painting in the world?
by © Jeff Pugh — REX/Shutterstock.com Many of the paintings have been described as “the most controversial”. Salvator Mundi (produced after 1500; “savior of the world”) …
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I remembered the group of seven
Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky/AP Say “Group of Seven,” and most people will assume you’re referring to the organization of the world’s leading industrial nations, whose …
How black people in the nineteenth century used photography as a tool for social change
National Park Service This article is republished from Conversation Under Creative Commons Licence. Read the The original articlewhich was published on February 26, 2021. Frederick …
El Anatsui creates monumental works of art from recycled materials – which is why the world has fallen in love with him
Christophe Staci – AFP/Getty Images This article is republished from Conversation Under Creative Commons Licence. Read the The original articlewhich was published on April 13, …
Beautiful Gibberish: Pseudo-Arabic in Medieval and Renaissance Art
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Samuel Kress Collection, January 255, 1939) In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, painters and sculptors …