The artist discusses a work by the 17th-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi that he believes “blows Caravaggio away.”CreditCredit...Joshua Charow, Christopher Mitchell and Bill Vella Longo ...

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Engineers bring a 250-year-old mechanical painting of Mount Vesuvius to fiery life The 1775 creation fuses artwork and clockwork to show the power of the famed volcano.

Despite helping create modern geek culture as we know it today with Star Wars, George Lucas himself had never attended a single Comic-Con in San Diego in its fifty-year history.

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