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The portrait of Knoll, who served as LG from 2003 to 2008, was painted by the late reknowned Bucks County artist Nelson Shanks and was paid for with private dollars.
Francisco Ibanez, Spain's best-known comic artist of the late 20th century and who was famous for the children's strip "Mortadelo and Filemon", has died, his publisher said on Saturday. He was 87.
Housed in the Cracchiolo Gallery of Baroque Art just off the Woodward entrance, “Armor as Fashion,” brings together a 17 th-century portrait of a nobleman with two pieces of armor he wears in it.
Jester - portrait of a medieval court fool, 15th century (Print by R ... In addition to containing the earliest known example of the expression "red herring," this late 15th-century booklet, ...
Airbrushing and beauty filters may feel like a modern phenomenon, but conservation work to a portrait painted in the 17th century has revealed that touch-ups to images are nothing new.
So what do you do when you have all of these clues about a dead king's voice and you want people to hear it? You put out a casting call. "For 10 years, I was looking for a man with a face with the ...
Spanish conquistadors first encountered the plant in the late 15th century, and their writings at the time describe natives “carry[ing] these leaves in their mouths without eating them, but ...
The Peruvian School, 18th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. Since 2003 the record price for ...
A beautiful yet unassuming 19th-century portrait of a mixed race woman believed to be Mary Ann Tritt Cassell went on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art late last month. It is making headlines for ...
Bosch’s vision of hell, first committed to canvas in the late-15th century, has come to be known by scholars and the public alike as the most famous scene of the underworld in Western art ...
A 15th century portrait of a young man by Sandro Botticelli —one of maybe a dozen portraits in existence by the early Renaissance artist widely known for painting Primavera and Birth of Venus ...