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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 6:19pm EST
Art historians thought it was just one of dozens of replicas produced in the centuries after Leonardo's death.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 9:35am EST
OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi -- The newly formed youth krewe at the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center of Arts & Education will make its debut Saturday during the city's Mardi Gras parade.
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Posted: January 31st, 2012, 2:37pm EST
:Near the Rothko Chapel on the 30-acre Menil Collection campus in Houston is another chapel. Its design is contemporary, foretelling nothing of the contents for which it was built. Within are two Byzantine frescoes. The one in the apse depicts the Virgin flanked by archangels Michael and Gabriel.
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Posted: January 27th, 2012, 9:52am EST
Forrest and Charlotte Lucas prepare to greet 1,000 guests in their 25,000-foot mansion once owned by Conseco exec. The 33-acre spread -- which include a cascading waterfall and 5 buildings -- has hosted ex-president George W. Bush and IndyCar's Danica Patrick.
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Posted: January 26th, 2012, 3:40pm EST
Charles Baxter The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo Don DeLillo; drawing by John Springs Having diagnosed a feeling or a situation or a place, an artist may be forever associated with it. We understand bureaucratic obfuscation that borders on terror, for example, in large part thanks to Kafka. A child’s face may have an uncanny resemblance to one in a Mary Cassatt painting, as if the ...
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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 7:58am EST
In a throwback to medieval times, a regional official in Kazakhstan was included in a fresco of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem that adorns a local Orthodox Christian church.
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Posted: January 20th, 2012, 9:11am EST
LOS ANGELES — At three o’clock on a cold December morning, a team of researchers huddled together on scaffolding 25 feet high in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio, holding a tablet computer up to a huge 16th-century fresco. But the researchers weren’t interested in the dramatic battle scene, the work of Renaissance artist Georgio Vasari.
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Posted: January 20th, 2012, 4:34am EST
The best of our readers' feedback, including advice on Tuscany, and a tip for what to wear in the developing world.
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Posted: January 19th, 2012, 11:38am EST
Falko Kuester, pictured December 16, 2011, at UC San Diego, is working with a team of researchers using cutting-edge technology to search for a Leonardo Da Vinci painting that may be hidden behind a mural in Florence, Italy.
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Posted: January 19th, 2012, 12:24am EST
Renee Whisnant's oil paintings and drawings will be on display at the Fine Arts League Gallery in a show called 'Into MY Space.' In addition to working full time, Whisnant paints as much as she can. 01/12/12 - Erin Brethauer (ebrethau@citizen-times.com) / Erin Brethauer/ebrethau@citizen-times.com
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Posted: January 18th, 2012, 9:06am EST
Modern science may reveal whether a long-lost work by the Renaissance master was hidden decades later by another painting. And then what? At three o'clock on a cold December morning, a team of researchers huddled together on scaffolding 25 feet high in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio, holding a tablet computer up to a huge 16th century fresco.
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Posted: January 18th, 2012, 7:04am EST
Not many sixth-graders have products with their artwork on them flying off the shelves of stores nationwide.
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Posted: January 17th, 2012, 8:43pm EST
Modern science may reveal whether a long-lost work by the Renaissance master was hidden decades later by another painting. And then what? At three o'clock on a cold December morning, a team of researchers huddled together on scaffolding 25 feet high in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio, holding a tablet computer up to a huge 16th century fresco.
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Posted: January 17th, 2012, 8:00am EST
Il Sunday Telegraph celebra la città di Udine „Donald Strachan del Sunday Telegraph dedica una pagina Udine dell’edizione domenicale del prestigioso giornale, e la descrive come una città che nel suo DNA racchiude elmenti di Venezia e Vienna Locals call it il salotto di Udine, “Udine’s drawing room”, though my map calls it Piazza [...]
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Posted: January 17th, 2012, 12:00am EST
From sandwiches and burgers to pan-seared tuna, The Commoner restaurant on Bank Street in New London promises an eclectic mix of American cuisine for a wide variety of tastes.
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Posted: January 16th, 2012, 1:18am EST
Martin Luther King Day celebration at Central United Methodist Church.
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Posted: January 14th, 2012, 2:04am EST
MLK Day with Grace Lee Boggs, Frithjof Bergman and Ron Scott at Church of the Messiah.
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Posted: January 13th, 2012, 8:19am EST
This pensioner has certainly made his mark - scrawling the world's most famous paintings on his housing association flat wall. Ray Charman, 75, spent an incredible 150 hours creating the brilliant replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper using a pencil, some sticky tape and a ruler.
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Posted: January 13th, 2012, 6:41am EST
Mr Charman, of Wendover, Buckinghamshire, started work on his own version of the 15th century masterpiece last October after spending 150 hours on the work of art.
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Posted: January 12th, 2012, 10:33pm EST
Mr Charman, of Wendover, Buckinghamshire, started work on his own version of the 15th century masterpiece last October after spending 150 hours on the work of art.
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Posted: January 11th, 2012, 9:20pm EST
Feeling underappreciated in his native land, he ‘brought magic' to an artists' colony in San Miguel de Allende
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Posted: January 11th, 2012, 9:19pm EST
Feeling underappreciated in his native land, he ‘brought magic' to an artists' colony in San Miguel de Allende
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Posted: January 11th, 2012, 8:04pm EST
Feeling underappreciated in his native land, he ‘brought magic' to an artists' colony in San Miguel de Allende
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Posted: January 11th, 2012, 7:50pm EST
Feeling underappreciated in his native land, he ‘brought magic' to an artists' colony in San Miguel de Allende
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Posted: January 11th, 2012, 2:49pm EST
ROME -- The clues are in the under layers. The color preparation. The sophisticated palette. The tiny brush strokes and minute changes in detail.
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Posted: January 10th, 2012, 7:10am EST
City's New Library To Get Work by New Mexico Artist
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Posted: December 29th, 2011, 2:33pm EST
Question: When are PEEPS too good to be true? Answer: When they’re an architectural illusion.
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Posted: December 25th, 2011, 8:16pm EST
Art experts have signed a petition to stop drilling into a fresco in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio which may be hiding a Leonardo Da Vinci work.
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Posted: December 24th, 2011, 9:08am EST
Leonardo da Vinci completed “The Last Supper” in Milan, Italy, in 1498. Almost immediately, the fresco started to deteriorate. Over the centuries, the famous work has suffered from human carelessness,
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Posted: December 23rd, 2011, 9:03pm EST
The Army officer who defied orders to save a masterpiece
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Posted: December 22nd, 2011, 12:17am EST
A masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci hidden for 450 years behind a false wall in the center of Florence, a clue hidden in plain sight that tens of thousands of tourists passed by every year: It sounds like the plot of a Dan Brown novel. Indeed, that’s what some people say it is.
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Posted: December 21st, 2011, 3:50am EST
A masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci hidden for 450 years behind a false wall in the center of Florence, a clue hidden in plain sight that tens of thousands of tourists passed by every year: It sounds like the plot of a Dan Brown novel. Indeed, that’s what some people say it is.
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Posted: December 20th, 2011, 7:59pm EST
A masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci hidden for 450 years behind a false wall in the center of Florence, a clue hidden in plain sight that tens of thousands of tourists passed by every year: It sounds like the plot of a Dan Brown novel. Indeed, that’s what some people say it is.
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Posted: December 20th, 2011, 7:29pm EST
A masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci hidden for 450 years behind a false wall in the center of Florence, a clue hidden in plain sight that tens of thousands of tourists passed by every year: It sounds like the plot of a Dan Brown novel. Indeed, that’s what some people say it is.
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Posted: December 20th, 2011, 7:29pm EST
A masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci hidden for 450 years behind a false wall in the center of Florence, a clue hidden in plain sight that tens of thousands of tourists passed by every year: It sounds like the plot of a Dan Brown novel. Indeed, that’s what some people say it is.
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Posted: December 20th, 2011, 3:39pm EST
Pintoricchio, Madonna with Blessing Child. Property of the Sorgente Group Foundation, Institute for Art and Culture. ROME.-
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Posted: December 16th, 2011, 5:13am EST
MOSCOW -- Serbia and Russia’s FMs Vuk Jeremić and Sergey Lavrov agreed Friday that UN SC Resolution 1244 remained the only legal basis for solutions to the Kosovo issue.
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Posted: December 16th, 2011, 5:13am EST
MOSCOW -- Serbia and Russia’s FMs Vuk Jeremić and Sergei Lavrov agreed Friday that UN SC Resolution 1244 remained the only legal basis for solutions to the Kosovo issue.
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Posted: December 16th, 2011, 5:13am EST
MOSCOW -- Serbia and Russia’s FMs Vuk Jeremić and Sergei Lavrov agreed Friday that UN SC Resolution 1244 remained the only legal basis for solutions to the Kosovo issue.
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Posted: December 15th, 2011, 8:36pm EST
To solve the mystery of a hidden masterpiece, a UCSD prof drills holes in a centuries-old painting and stares down some of the world's foremost art experts.
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Posted: December 13th, 2011, 2:02pm EST
:The San Diego Museum of Art will hang its newest addition to the permanent collection, an Eighteenth Century painting by Anton Raphael Mengs, a portrait of Don Luis de Borbón, among the museum's collection of Spanish art.
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Posted: December 11th, 2011, 3:20am EST
The Black Mountain Youth Chorale practice on the handbells. The group's holiday concert is today. / Special to the Citizen-Times Billy Jonas and his band will play a family-friendly holiday show on Dec. 19 at the Diana Wortham.
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Posted: December 8th, 2011, 9:53am EST
Discovering a buried Leonardo painting would be magnificent but drilling through a 16th-century fresco by Vasari is surely a step too far? A lost work by Leonardo da Vinci ? A battle painted on a wall, whose fate is mysterious and unresolved ? Stupendous. No wonder it has fascinated the Italian "art detective" Maurizio Seracini so much he has been searching for decades for clues to the survival ...
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Posted: December 8th, 2011, 9:08am EST
ROME: Italian police on Wednesday raided Florence’s most famous palace over allegations that a US quest for a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece is damaging a fresco believed to be covering it.
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Posted: December 7th, 2011, 5:54pm EST
Italian police Wednesday raided Florence’s most famous palace over allegations that the search for a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece is damaging a fresco believed to have been painted over it.
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Posted: December 7th, 2011, 2:36pm EST
Italian police on Wednesday raided Florence's most famous palace over allegations that a US quest for a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece is damaging a fresco believed to be covering it.
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Posted: December 7th, 2011, 1:04pm EST
Italian police on Wednesday raided Florence's most famous palace over allegations that a US quest for a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece is damaging a fresco believed to be covering it.
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Posted: December 7th, 2011, 10:53am EST
Art experts have signed a petition to stop drilling into a fresco in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio, where a hidden Leonardo Da Vinci work is believed to reside. "Once," the new stage musical based on the popular 2007 movie, has set an opening day on Broadway for Mar. 18.
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Posted: December 7th, 2011, 8:57am EST
A petition has been signed by art historians to prevent the drilling of holes into a fresco in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. The fresco may contain artwork by acclaimed Italian Renaissance polymath, Leonardo Da Vinci.
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Posted: December 6th, 2011, 6:23pm EST
Hundreds of scholars protest a project that drills tiny holes into a Giorgio Vasari fresco at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence in search of a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece that might lie behind it.