"Menagerie" is a series of 10 polygonal animal paintings by Laura Bifano, inspired by her love of nature and classic 8-bit video games.
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on Sep 22, 2011 -
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Caravaggio's crimes exposed in Rome's police files: "Four hundred years after his death,
Caravaggio is a 21st Century superstar among old master painters. His stark, dramatically lit, super-realistic paintings strike a modern chord - but his police record is more shocking than any modern bad boy rock star's. An
exhibition of documents at Rome's State Archives throws vivid light on his tumultuous life here at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries."
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posted by homunculus
on Feb 18, 2011 -
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Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery. "The masterpieces of
Minoan art are not what they seem... The truth is that these famous icons are largely modern. As any sharp-eyed visitor to the
Heraklion museum can spot, what survives of the original paintings amounts in most cases to no more than a few square inches. The rest is more or less imaginative reconstruction, commissioned in the first half of the twentieth century by
Sir Arthur Evans, the British excavator of the
palace of Knossos (and the man who coined the term 'Minoan' for this prehistoric
Cretan civilization, after the mythical King Minos who is said to have held the
throne there). As a general rule of thumb, the more famous the image now is, the less of it is actually ancient."
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on Aug 30, 2009 -
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