Famous Works of Art And How They Got That Way ManuscriptsIn a world filled with great museums and great paintings, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is the reigning queen. Her portrait rules over a carefully designed salon, one that was made especially for her in a museum that may seem intended for no other purpose than to showcase her virtues. What has made this portrait so renowned, commanding such adoration? And what of other works of art that continue to enthrall spectators: What makes the Great Sphinx so
Bound in blue cloth and blind-stamped with Constantin Brancusi's "Symbol of James Joyce
Seeds of Knowledge highlights the extraordinary collection of 15th- to 17th-century European printed herbals of the contemporary Liechtenstein collector Peter Goop
In Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life
the Morgan Library & Museum in New York
Wilde speaks of heartbreak and redemption
Published on the occasion of an exhibition Seeds of Knowledge: Early Modern Illustrated Herbals at the Morgan Library & Museum from October 6
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What is it about a woman reading that has captivated hundreds of artists over the centuries
The personalized prayer book of the French queen Claude de France enchants us especially by its delicate paintings in a charmingly small format of 69x49 mm
beasts and birds are not mere aesthetic objects but dynamic actors in allegorical struggles: a wild turkey crushes a small parrot in its claw
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now a threadbare and discarded nursery relic
