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Closer to Van Eyck →
Van Eycks Genter Altar zum Heranzoomen. Each centimeter of the beautiful altarpiece was scrutinized and professionally photographed at extremely high resolution in both regular and infrared light. The photographs were then digitally stitched together to create highly detailed images that allow for study of the painting at unprecedented microscopic levels. The website itself contains 100...
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Banderas to play Picasso | Variety →
Antonio Banderas will play Pablo Picasso in Carlos Saura’s upcoming “33 dias” (33 Days), about the painter’s emotional turmoil as he worked on masterpiece “Guernica.” “33 dias” refers to the time Picasso spent on the mural, which captured his reaction to the destruction of Basque town of Guernica in 1937 by the Nazi Luftwaffe during the Spanish...
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Gaudi From The Grave | The Global Mail →
By the time Antoni Gaudí was run over and killed by a Barcelona tram in June 1926, he had been working on his design for the Expiatory Church of the Holy Family for 43 years - almost his entire architectural career. For the last 12 of those years he worked on the Sagrada Familia to the exclusion of everything else, and during his last 18 months he slept on site in his workshop in the...
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David Dawson, der Assistent von Lucian Freud spricht über sein Verhältnis zum Künstler.
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Weird art-valuation justifications of the day,... →
Sarah Thornton schrieb für den Guardian: Fifteen years ago financial advisers were not in the practice of recommending that rich people diversify their portfolios by buying art. Now it is the norm. While buying emergent art is high-risk, speculative investment, acquiring established masterpieces is perceived as the opposite – a back-up in hard times. If all goes wrong in the world, if the...
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Who Owns Warhol’s Banana? | Hyperallergic.com →
Wer hat jetzt die Rechte an Warhols Banane? Hyperallergic fasst die Problematik noch mal zusammen.
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David Chipperfield bei Crane.tv über das Neue Museum in Berlin. Esteemed British architect David Chipperfield is renowned as one of the country’s most innovative designers. Most recently he worked with the German Embassy on the Hier and There project, and here talks to Crane.tv about his design aesthetic and the importance of one of his most famous structures - the reconstructed Neues...
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Mona Lisas: compare Leonardo with his pupil -... →
Interaktive Vergleichsspielerei. Es ist schon interessant, wie sehr sich der Gesamteindruck ändert, obwohl die konkreten Unterschiede im Einzelnen gar nicht so einfach festzumachen sind.
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Earliest copy of Mona Lisa found in Prado | The... →
Until recently, curators at the Prado had no idea of the significance of their copy of the Mona Lisa. There are dozens of surviving replicas from the 16th and 17th centuries. The Madrid version was believed by some specialist to have been painted fairly early, but the absence of the landscape background meant that it aroused little interest […]. Das ändert sich nun, nachdem unter der...
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