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Veronese Reconsidered
A detail from Veronese’s The Family of Darius before Alexander. Courtesy of the National Gallery To the contemporary viewer, Paolo Veronese, 1528‑1588, is a conundrum. How can one of the greatest of...
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Paintings by Gaugin and Bonnard Rediscovered
Police display Gauguin’s Fruits sur une able ou Nature au Petit Chien and Bonnard’s La femme aux Deux Fauteuils. Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images In 1975 a worker at the car firm Fiat went...
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Nasty but Talented
Detail from James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s Arrangement in Grey and Black No 1, also called Portrait of the Artist’s Mother. Photograph: Francis G Mayer/Corbis. It is one of the great unfairnesses in...
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El Greco Remembered
A photograph by Dionisio González incorporating imagined skyscrapers and futuristic buildings in the city of Toledo, home to El Greco. Credit Dionisio González, via Ivorypress When he arrived in...
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Matisse, with Scissors
Colour dances, and our eyes dance with it … detail from Matisse’s The Parakeet and the Mermaid (1952). Photograph: © Stedelijk /© Succession Henri Matisse/DACS 2014 Scissors, paper, pins – these were...
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Mannerism, from a 21st Century Perspective
Madonna and Child With Four Saints (Spedalingo Altarpiece), by Rosso Fiorentino, 1518 Henri Matisse is supposed to have encountered someone who complained that the arm of a woman in one of his...
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Impressionism’s Beginnings
First light … Claude Monet’s Impression: Sunrise, 1872 (oil on canvas). Photograph: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images The birth of impressionism now has an exact date and time: it was...
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Damage to St. Catherine frescoes
Just three patches of fresco remain in St Catherine’s, following restoration work carried out after the church was handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church by local legislators in 2010 German...
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Caravaggio’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy
Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy. ‘I know a Caravaggio when I see one,’ said Mina Gregori. Photograph: La Repubblica One of Italy’s most eminent art historians has claimed to have solved a centuries-old...
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Artists and Cinema
Loose grasp of technique … Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio. Photograph: BFI/Allstar/Allstar/BFI Years ago, I was asked to write a screenplay about JMW Turner for Peter O’Toole (who was not going to play...
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