A rare mummy portrait from Roman Egypt is set to be auctioned next week. This unique piece features a modern-looking man with ...
Introduction. Part I. Assimilation and deification in the classical portrait historié. From Phidias to Constantine: The Portrait Historié in Classical Antiquity (Stephan T.A.M. Mols, Eric M. Moormann, ...
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French artist adds celebrities and characters into classical paintings, and the results are quite fitting (28 pics)
People of status always dominated in portraits, not only because of their elevated social rank but also because it cost a fortune to commission a painting. Nowadays, however, there are millions of ...
A new exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam brings together a large collection of funeral paintings from post-Ptolemaic Egypt, some loaned from the Louvre and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Luca Del Baldo, ”Arthur C. Danto” (2010), oil on Belgian linen, 40 x 30 cm (all images courtesy of the artist) The title of the project is The Visionary Academy of Ocular Mentality. You could say that ...
A rare reunion has taken place at the Nivaagaard Collection in Denmark, as the museum has located the image of a woman, who, for nearly 200 years, has been missing from a 17th-century family portrait.
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