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Artist Claudia Bicen's painted portraits of people who were facing the end of life, ... Drawing portraits of dying people in hospice taught this artist about living. March 16, 2016.
A self portrait of Michelangelo has been discovered - hidden in one of his famous sketches for 500 years. The sketch is disguised in a drawing of the artist's close friend, Vittoria Colonna, on ...
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced the launch of William Bache’s Silhouettes Album, a microsite featuring new research and digitized images for 1,800 cut-paper silhouettes by ...
Some scholars believe van Gogh's Café Terrace at Night is actually a version of The Last Supper, with the waiter coincidentally adorned in white acting as Jesus, surrounded by 12 patrons, one of which ...
The portrait of Julien (Père) Tanguy is the second of three Van Gogh painted of the French art dealer and gallery owner. Tanguy (1825-1894) was one of the first people to offer Van Gogh's ...
Figuring out how to deal with that face is the central preoccupation of the work shown here, from the earliest self-portraits in the 1940s, visibly influenced by her teacher and husband, Willem de ...
Mayo’s kids used to attend Cesar Chavez Elementary. Out of the 601 students enrolled, 22% identify as Hispanic/Latinx, 12% Black, 8% Asian, 49% white, 0.3% American Indian/Alaska native, 0.1% ...
One of the most famous portraits of Winston Churchill is missing from the Château Laurier's Reading Lounge after apparently being replaced with a copy, but exactly how long ago it disappeared is ...
The role a Detroit-born artist played in the New York art world of the 1980s is explored in "Make Me Famous," a scrappy look at the life, influence and struggle of East Village expressionist ...