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decorated by Benozzo Gozzoli, considered a Renaissance fresco masterpiece. To conclude the tour, we will reach San Lorenzo Squar,e home to the iconic unfinished church, and enter the Medici Chapels to ...
spends far longer scrutinising Benozzo Gozzoli’s Journey of the Magi to Bethlehem, identifying portraits (including one of Cosimo on a donkey) and gauging their significance, than most art historians ...
Lori Larusso, "A Pastiche of Good Intentions" (2019), acrylic on 21 panels and wall installation; KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky (photo Diane Deaton Street; all other images ...
The Denver Art Museum is taking a genuine risk with its new solo show by painter Kent Monkman, though not for the reasons you might think. Kent Monkman's "Protecting the Medicines,” from 2023.
But if you’ve ever found yourself chuckling at the angry man-heads on human babies in medieval art, the joke is actually on you: These painters wanted the babies to look like Boomers.
A painting by Marlene Dumas going up for auction this month at Christie’s New York will likely break the record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by a living woman artist.
A kid in the Netherlands damaged a Mark Rothko painting worth roughly $56 million after he “scratched” it at a Dutch museum, officials said. The child, who hasn’t been identified ...
Pope Francis left a lasting legacy, not least his appreciation for art. In his 2025 biography, “Hope,” Francis spoke of his admiration for the Baroque painter Caravaggio. He recalled that ...
A child damaged a painting worth around $56 million at an art museum in the Netherlands. A young visitor got too close to American artist Mark Rothko’s “Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8” at the ...
A street artist had to depend on patrons to help him buy a 19th century house and had to depend on himself to restore it. Peter Daverington, a street artist turned landscape painter, renovated a ...
Think twice about taking children to a museum housing expensive art. Scratch that, maybe just leave them at home. That's arguably the moral of the story after a child reportedly damaged a Mark ...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A 15-year-old Nigerian has set a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest art canvas to raise awareness for autism. Kanyeyachukwu Tagbo-Okeke, who is autistic ...