October 30, 2007

The Last Supper In Detail

Filed under: — brandon @ 1:20 am

Officials have recently put the last supper online in great detail, that which is 1600 times more powerful then a typical 10 mega pixel digital camera.
Even those who who visit Milan have a tough time getting to see the painting, with demand 3 or 4 times higher than the amount of people they […]

October 24, 2007

Did Van Gogh use Tea Towels?

Filed under: — brandon @ 6:03 pm

A new study shows that when Van Gogh would run out of canvases, he would often switch to paint on other surfaces. Anything from tea towels and tablecloths, to even painting over other works of art he created, were not off limits.
He was often short of money or materials and many of […]

October 18, 2007

Mona Lisa Had Eyebrows!

Filed under: — brandon @ 8:31 am

And eyelashes too!

“The resulting ultra-high resolution photograph of 150,000 dots per inch yielded a reproduction of the “Mona Lisa’s” face magnified 24 times. And there Cotte found the evidence he sought — a single brushstroke of a single hair above the left brow.”
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October 9, 2007

Monet Painting Damaged At Musée d’Orsay

Filed under: — brandon @ 10:08 am

I just found this online. Looks like a pretty big gash.
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October 1, 2007

The Night Watch: Conspiracy Of Murder ?

Filed under: — brandon @ 12:55 pm

There’s a new movie coming out that supposedly details murder as the hidden meaning behind Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch”. The movie recounts Rembrandt’s uncovering of a murder conducted by the militia-men pictured in the painting. He later was commissioned to paint a portrait of these men. There are supposed clues hidden […]

 
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