Tag: painting
All the articles with the tag "painting".
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Raphael Self Portrait School of Athens: The Painter Who Hid in the Corner
Published:• 13 min readThe Raphael self portrait School of Athens tucks the painter beside Ptolemy at age twenty seven, staring straight out and claiming a seat among the ancients.
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School of Athens Figures Identified: Who's Who in Raphael's Fresco
Published:• 15 min readSchool of Athens figures identified one by one: Leonardo as Plato, Michelangelo as Heraclitus, Euclid as Bramante, and the painter hiding in the corner.
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The Sistine Chapel Restoration Controversy: Did the Vatican Ruin Michelangelo?
Published:• 16 min readThe Sistine Chapel restoration controversy of 1980 to 1994 turned the ceiling from brown to neon, and one professor spent his life calling it a crime.
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The Creation of Adam Hidden Meaning: Why There's a Brain in God's Cloak
Published:• 16 min readThe Creation of Adam hidden meaning that a doctor noticed in 1990, and why once you see the brain in God's cloak, you cannot unsee it.
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The Van Gogh Self Portrait Orsay Holds Was Painted From Inside an Asylum
Published:• 12 min readThe Van Gogh self portrait Orsay visitors see was painted September 1889 inside the Saint-Remy asylum, three months before he shot himself.
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How Long to Spend at Musee d'Orsay (And the Order to Do It In)
Published:• 12 min readHow long to spend at Musee d'Orsay? Three hours minimum, on three floors, in a specific order. Here's the route most guidebooks get wrong.
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Turn Around: The Wedding at Cana Painting Is a Wall
Published:• 14 min readThe Wedding at Cana painting by Paolo Veronese is the biggest canvas in the Louvre, hangs directly behind the Mona Lisa crowd, and almost nobody turns around.