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Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa

Learn about the significance of women in art at the National Museum of Women in the Arts

Explore Chinese art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

Chinese sculpture during the Han dynasty examined

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Vandalized Art list. Combo of EB owned illustration (top) and parent Asset 182294. 4 of 11 The Rokeby Venus by Diego Velazquez was hit with a meat cleaver by Mary Richardson

Art Abuse: 11 Vandalized Works of Art

Members of the public view artwork by Damien Hirst entitled: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living - in the Tate Modern art gallery on April 2, 2012 in London, England. (see notes) (1991) Tiger shark, glass, steel

Vile or Visionary?: 11 Art Controversies of the Last Four Centuries

"Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (verso: The Potato Peeler)," oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh, 1887. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 40.6 x 31.8 cm.

The Dramatic Life of Vincent van Gogh

Colorful abstract painting. Contemporary painting. Not a Jackson Pollock. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society

7 Tongue-Twisting Painting Techniques

Painting palette with oil paints and brushes. Rainbow colored paints, arts and entertainment

Art History: The Origins of 7 of Your Favorite Art Supplies

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Gutzon Borglum. Presidents. Sculpture. National park. George Washington. Thomas Jefferson. Theodore Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln. Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota.

9 Memorials and Monuments in the United States

Ethel Rosenberg arrested in August 1950. Photograph dated Aug. 8, 1950. American civilians executed for espionage. Spies, communists, Julius Rosenberg

Spies Like Us: 10 Famous Names in the Espionage Game

Dancers at a Cinco de Mayo festival at the Mission District, San Francisco, California. (Photo dated 2019.) holidays

Is Cinco de Mayo Mexico's Independence Day?

Drinking water is poured into a glass.

Water Fluoridation: Just the Facts

King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Cathedrale St.Jean in Lyon, France has a 14th-century astronomical clock that shows religious feast days till the year 2019; Perpetual Calendar

Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar

Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa

Learn about the significance of women in art at the National Museum of Women in the Arts

Explore Chinese art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

Chinese sculpture during the Han dynasty examined

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Ernest F. Fenollosa

American orientalist and art critic

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

English writer and artist

Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center

Wassily Kandinsky

Russian-born artist

James McNeill Whistler

James McNeill Whistler

American artist

Lorenzo de' Medici

Lorenzo de’ Medici

Italian statesman

Niki de Saint Phalle: Tarot Garden

Niki de Saint Phalle

French-American artist

Eduardo Kac

Brazilian American artist

Winckelmann, Johann

Johann Winckelmann

German art historian

J.P. Morgan

J.P. Morgan

American financier

Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Mi Fu

Chinese artist

Sérusier, Paul: The Flowered Gate

Paul Sérusier

French painter

Harold Rosenberg

American art critic

Enwezor, Okwui

Okwui Enwezor

Nigerian-born art curator

Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid

American artists

Lawrence Alloway

American curator and art critic

Vitaly Komar

American artist

Philostratus the Younger

Greek author

Alex Melamid

American artist

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari

Italian artist and author

Andrew Mellon

American financier and politician

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Artist paint brushes and watercolor paintbox on wooden palette. Instruments and tools for creative leisure. Creative background. Paintings art concept. Painting hobby. Back to school. Top view.

More Art and Colors Quiz

Tourists visit "Cloud Gate", a sculpture by Anish Kapoor, in Millenium Park in Chicago, Illinois.

Who Made That? (Part 2)

Color pastels, colored chalk, colorful chalk. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society

Ultimate Art Quiz

"Deux Fantassins Casques (Two Helmeted Infantrymen)" Roger de La Fresnaye, 1917. Pen and black ink with wash, 30.8x19.4 cm

Cubism: Art and Artists

USA 2006 - 78th Annual Academy Awards. Closeup of giant Oscar statue at the entrance of the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, film movie hollywood

Pop Culture Quiz

The Creation of Adam to the Flood, detail of the ceiling fresco in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican, by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), painted 1508-12. Location: Sistine Chapel, Vatican Palace, Vatican State

Which Came First: Art Edition

President Abraham Lincoln. Statue of Abraham Lincoln, designed by Daniel Chester French, in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Who Made That?

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Colorful abstract painting. Contemporary painting. Not a Jackson Pollock. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society

7 Tongue-Twisting Painting Techniques

Blank canvas in an artist's studio. Art; oil paints; brushes; artists' tools

6 Contemporary Artists Who Redefined Their Mediums

Painting palette with oil paints and brushes. Rainbow colored paints, arts and entertainment

Art History: The Origins of 7 of Your Favorite Art Supplies

Sculpture of woman before restoration (left) and after restoration on the exterior of an office building in Palencia, Spain. (art restoration)

5 Art Restorations Gone Wrong

Vandalized Art list. Combo of EB owned illustration (top) and parent Asset 182294. 4 of 11 The Rokeby Venus by Diego Velazquez was hit with a meat cleaver by Mary Richardson

Art Abuse: 11 Vandalized Works of Art

Demystified

The Jeff Koons tulips sculputure outside the Guggenheim Museums in Bilbao, Spain, Basque Country.

What’s the Difference Between Modern and Contemporary Art?