The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery unveiled a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln Friday morning. The 1865 portrait was painted by Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers and is one of three ...
In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...
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This Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait Could Become the Most Expensive Work by a Female Artist Ever Sold at Auction
Kahlo painted The Dream (The Bed) during a year of “intense personal trauma and creative renewal,” according to a statement from Sotheby’s. The year 1940 was when revolutionary Leon Trotsky, Kahlo’s ...
The truth of Frederick Baker’s life was long obscured by a whitewashed history perpetuated by the Longwood mansion in Mississippi, new research says.
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