Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...
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Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
A 25-year-old man named Sengbe Pieh led the ... have humanized them – were hard to come by. Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century were also unusual. Enslavers often viewed them ...
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Gustave Caillebotte: A Fresh Lens on Masculinity in 19th-Century France
The J. Paul Getty Museum is presenting the first major exhibition of Gustave Caillebotte in the United States. Caillebotte ...
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Museum Scoops Three Masterpieces by Overlooked 18th Century Portrait Painter
A Luxembourg museum has scooped three portraits by 18th century painter Monique Daniche, featuring the elite of Strasbourg ...
Long-Buried Secret Exposed Under 16th-Century Titian Painting Of Jesus
Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...
Beneath A Picasso Painting, A Mysterious Hidden Portrait Emerges
Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted one portrait, high-tech imaging tools have revealed a secret — another, earlier ...
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Experts Say They’ve Found a Portrait of a Mysterious Businessman Hidden Beneath a Titian Masterpiece
When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...
The 100 Greatest TV Performances of the 21st Century
Variety breaks down the best TV performances of the 21st century, from Jeremy Allen White to Emma Stone and Sydney Sweeney.
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The Man Who Captured the Unique Beauty of Snowflakes
Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so ...
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Mysterious portrait of a woman revealed beneath Picasso painting
Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface. The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it ...
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Mysterious Portrait of a Woman Discovered Beneath Painting from Pablo Picasso's Blue Period
When taking X-ray and infrared images of a "portrait depicting Picasso’s sculptor friend painted in 1901 and one of the earliest examples of the artist’s Blue Period," conservators at The ...