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Why Were So Many Renaissance Portraits Multisided?
The Renaissance portraits that adorn the walls of the world’s museums hold countless secrets: painted-over underdrawings,...
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Surviving Climate Apocalypse
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Empty Frames and Other Oddities from the Unsolved Gardner Museum Heist
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A decades-long art forgery scheme
Norval Morrisseau was certain. “I did not paint the attached 23 acrylics on canvas,” he wrote...
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Paintings Reveal How the Dutch Adapted to Extreme Weather in the Little Ice Age
On the afternoon of January 2, 1565, an iceberg drifted down the harbor of Delfshaven, a...
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An artists interpretation of the creatures of Dwarf Fortress
I played Dwarf Fortress more back in 2006 when it still was 2D but still check...
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The Telemetron (2017)
Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled...
