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Martha Stewart Was So Moved by Florence’s Renaissance Art, She Kissed a Stranger (On Her Honeymoon!)
Here are the all art historical tidbits from 'Martha' the new documentary about lifestyle icon Martha Stewart, now streaming ...
Artnet9d
Museum Raises $6 Million to Keep Rare Renaissance Painting in the U.K.
A rare early masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico has been acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England ...
Oxford museum pays over €5 million to keep Renaissance painting in the UK
The Ashmolean Museum raised nearly £4.5 million (€5.4 million) to stop Fra Angelico’s The Crucifixion being sold overseas.
culture.pl1mon
Bona Sforza’s Dark Legend: Unveiling the Queen Through Renaissance Art
Interestingly, the artist painted the piece after his return from Italy, where not only did he get to know Italian Renaissance art, but he also became convinced about the necessity of painting ...
The Art Newspaper8d
Renaissance special: Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael in Florence, drawings and tapestries—podcast
A deep dive into two London shows bringing together key works of the movement, and a spectacular series of tapestries ...
How rivalry created the Renaissance
In Disney’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper ’s Rivals, the romance novelist Lizzie Vereker sits at her typewriter, and imagines a ...
At the Met, Black Artists Salute an Enduring Affinity With Egypt
A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past?
Michigan Chronicle3d
Detroit’s Art Renaissance: Taking Culture From the Motor City to the City of Light
Last month, I, along with over fifty Detroit artists, curators, museum directors, and art patrons, took to the streets of ...