In Brief
New research suggests that Leonardo da Vinci's "Virgin of the Rocks" at the National Gallery — one of the British museum's most prized possessions — might not be the work of the master after all, the Guardian reported.
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A group of prominent Norwegian architects who have long opposed the Norway's new national museum building are now speaking out to save the original National Gallery, which dates to 1842.
In Brief
One month after the big news that London's National Gallery now allows visitors to take photographs, the head of Arts Council England has proposed that museums institute a special hour every day when picture-taking is banned.
Art
Monet and Renoir drenched their canvases in colors that until that point had been prohibitively expensive for most artists, yet during their lifetimes became available synthetically in mass production.
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It seems like ever other month a new painting by an Old or New Master is being rediscovered after a stint of obscurity in someone's palazzo, basement, yard sale, or, in this case, in museum storage. London's National Gallery, which you'd think would know exactly what it had, has discovered what they