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Experts Say They’ve Found a Portrait of a Mysterious Businessman Hidden Beneath a Titian Masterpiece
When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...
Beneath A Picasso Painting, A Mysterious Hidden Portrait Emerges
Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted one portrait, high-tech imaging tools have revealed a secret — another, earlier ...
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Key Motifs in Italian Renaissance Art: Mythology to Portraits
The rise of portraiture in the Renaissance has a two-fold nature. Portraits reflected the values ... Florence, the seat of the Italian Renaissance, first grew as a wool-producing city involved ...
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
“I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.” While Italian artists were well placed to revive the art of their native past, Northern Renaissance artists ...