Who Really Wielded the Paintbrush?
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A statistical analysis of brush strokes done with a computer program suggests that the Italian Renaissance painter Perugino had help with his "Madonna With Child."
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The Man and His Art rescues a nearly forgotten genius from obscurity
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Timothy Krajcir got away with murder for decades, police say. In fact, his killings were so calculated police wondered if they were hunting for one of their own. "There was some speculation, of course," Cape Girardeau Police Chief Carl Kinnison told CNN.
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The Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang paints with gunpowder when heâs not staging open-air âexplosion events.â At this summerâs Beijing Olympic ceremonies, heâll be playing with fire.
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An art broker stands accused of tricking the owner of a Monet painting out of nearly $2m.
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Tycho:  Gabriel had Kara call me to say he wouldn't be in the office to do the strip, a tactic that showed wisdom on his part, because if he'd talked to me himself I would have told him to put his big girl pants on.  We'd written the strip already, so we were halfway there. It was far, far, far outside his comfort level, but I asked Kiko to execute the strip visually. He excelled - but, then again, he is Kiko.
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An 84-year-old man whose family forged statues and paintings that were sold to museums including the Art Institute of Chicago received a two-year suspended sentence in London on Monday, The Associated Press reported. The man, George Greenhalgh, right; his wife, Olive, 83; and their son, Shaun, 46, pleaded guilty in 2002 to laundering money from the sale of forged artworks. In November a sentence of more than four years was imposed on Shaun, described by the authorities as the creator of fakes that supposedly ranged across the millennia, from gold and silver Roman and Anglo-Saxon works to sculptures attributed to Paul Gauguin and Henry Moore. Mrs. Greenhalgh received a one-year sentence. The police said the parents handled most of the sales. Detective Sgt. Vernon Rapley, chief of Scotland Yardâs art and antiques unit, said there was little doubt that some of the familyâs forgeries were still circulating in the art world.
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Modern renaissance man Maurizio Seracini wants to find Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari. His organization Editech uses high-tech tools to track down historic Italian works of art that the years have hidden from the public eye.
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Its gold-encrusted blade holds the secrets of the young Napoleon, who carried it into one of his legendary, seemingly doomed battles.
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By Linda Conner Lambeck, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Dec. 9--One of Chicago native Ken Harck's most-prized possessions is a lock of P.T. Barnum's hair, tucked in a book he said was given to him by the master showman's granddaughter.
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Bloody and brutal, the Aztecs produced powerful art. The Guggenheim offers the biggest survey ever
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Mr. Tetherow, a New York-based painter, placed great emphasis on the physical nature of paint and painting.
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A show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash invites us to reconsider the virtues of this underrated painter.
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Tycho:  I was in a guild with the guy who started FigurePrints, and when he extended coupons to the old crew I snapped them up and gave them as Christmas presents.  None of my characters ever reached the highest echelons of Azerothian Fashion, so it seemed like they were better invested in Gabriel and Keek, who poured night after night into Battlegrounds and Active Volcanoes fighting dragons and whatnot. The coupons I have described are difficult to secure, only available in random drawings at random intervals, or if by some twist of fate you happen to have been guildmates with a cunning entrepreneur.  It's really a way to ennoble the lost years you plowed into that game.  It's the sort of thing you'd think a person would appreciate.
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An art expert was unfairly sued after he concluded that his own grandfather had created a Western-theme painting bearing the name of a better-known artist, a jury ruled.
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The Mona Lisa originally had eyebrows and eyelashes, a French inventor claims after scanning the painting.
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Two valuable Walt Disney Company watercolors depicting Mickey Mouse as the sorcererâs apprentice in the 1940 film âFantasiaâ have been recovered 17 years after they vanished.