Learn why Adolf Hitler commanded Nazi troops to seize The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
Learn about Jan and Hubert van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece and its history of being stolen many times.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn more about life on the plains with the photography of Frank Sadorus.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.American artist James McNeill Whistler painted Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, also known as The Artists Mother, in 1871.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.An overview of Renaissance architecture.
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Video by Marcello Barenghi; music by Cinquequarti (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Time-lapse video of hyperrealist artist Marcello Barenghi drawing a great white shark in 3 hours and 52 minutes.
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© Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)See how the skull of Seianti, an Etruscan noblewoman who lived about 250–150 bce, is used in the reconstruction of her facial appearance. Then compare the work of the modern-day forensic-medical artist with the face of the sculpted figure on the sarcophagus in which the skull was found.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Although Bosch did not sign his name on the artwork, there is little doubt that The Garden of Earthly Delights is one of his masterpieces.
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Archival footage supplied by the Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org) in association with Prelinger ArchivesGeorgette Seabrooke in an excerpt from A Study of Negro Artists, a silent film produced by the Harmon Foundation and released in the 1930s that features many artists active during the Harlem Renaissance.
