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Tintoretto at 500: Celebrating the Life and Works of the Venetian Master
This month the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, presents a comprehensive study of one of the greatest painters of the 16th century. Jacopo Tintoretto (c. 1519–1594) was one of the…
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Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: Painting royalty, fleeing revolution
At 15 Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun was painting the aristocracy, in her 20s she was the favored painter of Marie Antoinette, and by her 30s she was fleeing the French Revolution.
The Lady of Shalott - Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites

"What attracted the Pre-Raphaelites to Alfred Tennyson’s poem ‘The Lady of Shalott’? And how did the convex mirror from van Eyck’s ‘Arnolfini Portrait’ come to play an essential role in their…