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The Science Behind Mona Lisa’s SmileHow Leonardo da Vinci engineered the world’s most famous painting Walter Isaacson The Atlantic, Nov. 2017 Issue Want to receive exclusive insights from The Atlantic—while supporting a sustainable future for independent journalism? Join our new membership program, The Masthead Leonardo da Vinci liked to think that he was as good at e..

Art & Design Did Leonardo da Vinci Sketch the ‘Nude Mona Lisa’?By ELIAN PELTIER New York Times, SEPT. 29, 2017 The Mona Vanna, or ‘Naked Mona Lisa,’ as the painting is nicknamed. Credit Christophel Fine Art/UIG, via Getty Images PARIS — Behind closed doors in the Louvre’s basements, experts have been scrutinizing a drawing for weeks with one question on their m..

How Renaissance Painting Smoldered with a Little Known Hallucinogen Looking at depictions of St. Anthony in the paintings of Renaissance masters, the influence of the disease of ergotism on the history of art starts to become clear. Forresty MuelrathHyperAllergicSept. 20, 2017 Follower of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” (c. 1550/1575), oil on pan..

HistoryHandcrafted Japanese Shop Signs Perfected the Art of Advertising An exhibition at the Mingei International Museum showcases the artistry of kanban, a genre of handmade sign that rose to prominence during the Edo Period. Clalre VoonHyperalergicSept. 22-13, 2017 A 19th-century kattamen kanban for a sake brewerIt’s a centuries-old art form that is little known today: the ..

The Art of Space Art By Kastalia MedranoThe Paris RevewSeptember 14, 2017 On Design Tim Pyle’s conception of the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Between 1952 and 1954, the Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun ran a popular series in Collier’s Weekly called “Man Will Conquer Space Soon!”, outlining a manifest-destiny approach to space, t..

Art and Self You Probably Think This Art Is About You Carolyn Stewart The American Interest Published on: August 16, 2017 How selfie-taking reconfigures our relationship to art. Walter Benjamin, writing in 1934 about the new medium of moving film and the role of the audience, captured a dynamic that applies to today’s social media users: “In the end, [the actor] is confron..

神도 질투한 인간의 몸김윤덕 기자 조선일보 입력 : 2017.08.10 03:02 [테이트 NUDE] [1] 신화·성서·문학 속 누드 한류 스타 '방탄소년단'의 히트작 '피땀 눈물'의 뮤직비디오엔 19세기 명화가 한 점 등장한다. 허버트 제임스 드레이퍼의 '이카루스를 위한 애도'. 아버지 경고를 무시하고 태양 가..

Picasso and TragedyT.J. Clark London Review of Books Aug. 2017 There is a moment towards the end of King Lear – many readers and playgoers have found it almost unbearable – when the mad king enters, holding his daughter’s corpse in his arms. ‘Lend me a looking glass,’ Lear says, ‘If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,/Why then she lives.’ Two of ..

Divine Restoration: Vatican Conservators Identify New Figures Painted by Raphael The two allegorical figures in the Hall of Constantine were previously attributed to his workshop, but a recent restoration revealed them to be the master’s work Hyperallergic July 5, 2017 . Claire Voon Allegory of Friendship in the Hall of Constantine (screenshot via Vatican Television Center/Yo..

The Enduring Relevance of a 1,000-Year-Old Chinese Design Manual Facsimile pages of the Sanli tu are on view at Bard Graduate Center, where an illuminating exhibition explores the book’s significance and legacy in design. Claire Voon HyprallergicJuly, 2017 Claire Voon is a staff writer at Hyperallergic. She likes to frequent museums, diners, cemeteries, bookstores, and botan..