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Raphael Riddle Reexamined

January 1st, 1970 by About Art History
Do the Mother and Child duo in this image look familiar to you? Yes, me too; aren't they dead ringers for the Mother and Child in Raphael's Sistine Madonna? That...

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Art Speak FAQ: What is a Catalogue?

January 1st, 1970 by About Art History
It often makes me want to contact an author when, while doing art history research, I am forced to look up words that appear to have been included solely to...

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Exhibition Catalogue Review: Excavating Egypt

January 1st, 1970 by About Art History
The special exhibition Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London is currently making its way through some lucky United States art museums. It...

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The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army

January 1st, 1970 by About Art History
British Museum Tickets for Exhibition on Sale Now By Stan Parchin Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, revealed on February 7, 2007 details of The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army, the...

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Special Exhibition Review: Glitter and Doom

January 1st, 1970 by About Art History
When Gail Myhre, Correspondent for Museums and Special Exhibitions, expressed an interest in viewing Glitter and Doom - German Portraits from the 1920s (on view at The Metropolitan Museum of...

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Special Exhibition Review: Set in Stone

January 1st, 1970 by About Art History
As Stan Parchin reports, there's quite an intriguing story behind many of the sculpted heads on view in Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Art. This exhibition, at...

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Art History 101 - The New Leipzig School

January 1st, 1970 by About Art History
Over the course of the past couple years, it has occasionally seemed to me as if every other day's arts news glowingly mentioned the painters of the "New Leipzig School"...

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Leonardo in the Limelight

January 1st, 1970 by About Art History
Italian Renaissance Master in the News By Stan Parchin Agence-France Presse reported on January 20, 2007 that Guiseppe Pallanti, author of Mona Lisa Revealed: The True Identity of Leonardo's Model (Skira, 2006),...

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Pivotal ARTstor Expansion

January 1st, 1970 by About Art History
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced in a press release on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 that it will begin augmenting the current 500,000 art images in the ARTstor charter collection...

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Exhibition Gallery: Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism

January 1st, 1970 by About Art History
It seems as if every time I hear the word "Impressionism" my mind's eye immediately begins composing an out-of-doors scene, so I was eager to get a glimpse of the...

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