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Airbrushing and beauty filters may feel like a modern phenomenon, but conservation work to a portrait painted in the 17th century has revealed that touch-ups to images are nothing new. English ...
Art history sleuths in Europe have determined that two separate portraits by a 17th-century Flemish artist actually belong together — and the two works of art have been reunited in a Danish museum.
“Most women artists painted mostly portraits and still lives ... in the same breath as art made by the great male contemporaries of the 17th century, such as Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony ...
The unveiling and proposed £10m sale of an early 17th century portrait, reputedly of William ... the only indoor establishment of the King’s Men or the Shakespeare Company, where Shakespeare ...
Former Politics Reporter A 17th-century portrait of English aristocrat Diana Cecil apparently received a modern-day photoshopping, with portions of Cecil’s face being painted over to make for a ...
English Heritage’s paintings conservator Alice Tate-Harte finishes the conservation of a 17th-century portrait of Diana Cecil, Countess of Oxford, that had been revised by an unidentified ...
Alice Tate-Harte, a conservator at English Heritage, works on a 17th-century portrait of Diana Cecil. Christopher Ison / English Heritage The idea of airbrushing or filtering a selfie might seem ...
For years, a 17th-century portrait of a child hid on the back of a door in an English cottage that was crammed with antiques, rarely seen even by the eccentric collector who lived there.
A remarkably unique 17th-century double portrait depicting a Black and white woman side-by-side as equals will remain in the U.K., it was announced today. It is due to go on display for the public ...