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A Mouthwatering Museum Tour for Vegans

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick March 12, 2020March 11, 2020

Museumgoers of the vegan variety don’t heap ham, cheese, and eggs onto their plates — and some don’t want to see the stuff when they’re strolling through the Prado Museum, either.

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A Tale of Two Pioneering Women Painters in Renaissance Italy

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford December 5, 2019August 29, 2020

At a time when women were seen as incapable of serious creative or intellectual activity, Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana gained international renown for their exceptional bodies of work.

Posted inArt

On the Hunt for Depictions of Queer Sexuality at the Prado

by Madeleine L. Haddon August 15, 2017August 14, 2017

For the exhibition, The Other’s Gaze, the curators left the objects in their usual locations in order to illustrate the rich history of representing non-normative gender and sexuality already present within European painting and sculpture.

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Museo del Prado Leads the Charge Toward Better Accessibility for the Blind

by Laura C. Mallonee February 12, 2015February 16, 2015

Touching the Prado invites visually impaired people to touch relief replicas of six collection masterpieces.

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Spain’s Art-for-Taxes Program Only Works When the Art’s Good

by Becca Rothfeld January 26, 2015January 23, 2015

If taxes sound taxing to you, consider this alternative: move to Spain, purchase valuable and culturally significant artworks, and donate them to the Spanish government in lieu of tax. Just make sure they’re really significant artworks.

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Spain’s Museo del Prado Missing 885 Artworks

by Mostafa Heddaya July 22, 2014

The Museo del Prado in Spain is missing 885 artworks, down from 926 in 2008, El País reported.

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Digital Homage to the Old Masters

by Ellen Pearlman May 15, 2012April 15, 2016

Davide Quagliola (aka Quayola) an Italian digital artist, loves art. He loves his Roman heritage, brimming with Renaissance and Baroque innuendos. And he loves classical images, and the beauty of the algorithm.

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