Toward the end of the thirteenth century, painting became one of the city ... We seem to prefer our Old Masters full-throated and free-spirited, making a personal vision public or smuggling ...
New research has revealed the fascinating life story of a once anonymous Black boy in a grand 18th-century English portrait ... of paper on the floor in the painting. Absent from this list is ...
Imagine this: you’ve got a dusty old painting shoved into a corner, ignored, and left to languish in a cheap frame, only to discover it’s an original Picasso.