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See the Miniature Portrait of Mary Magdalene That Raphael Painted When He Was Only 20
Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...
Portraits in power: The official photos of Melania and President Trump
The new White House portraits of the first lady and the president tell a story of hard-nosed power and all-encompassing anger ...
Melania Trump's official portrait is loaded with hues of hidden symbolism. How is it different from Michelle and Jill's FLOTUS portraits?
Melania Trumps new official portrait embodies themes of power, control, and distance. Dressed in a Dolce & Gabbana tuxedo ...
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‘Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror’: Parmigianino’s Brilliantly Warped Perspective
If you think the selfie was born as a direct result of the cellphone, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” painted just over 500 years ago by Francesco Mazzola, the Italian artist commonly ...
‘Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror’: Parmigianino’s Brilliantly Warped Perspective
The 16th-century Italian artist undermined the Renaissance-era rules of illusionistic space with this playful, virtuosic ...
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Michelangelo’s Drawings for the Sistine Chapel Visit the U.S. for the First Time
Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle ...
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Franco Raggi, the “great unorthodox” of Italian design, on show at Triennale Milano
It is impossible to categorize Raggi and his work, ranging from radical Italian design to contemporary issues. His first solo ...
She Designs the Book Covers You Judge
When Ms. Kim set out to design the cover of “Fresh Complaint,” a 2017 story collection by Jeffrey Eugenides, a writer she had ...
The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...