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100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [2]
The oldest firmly dated rock-art painting in Australia is a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment found during the excavation of the Nawarla Gabarnmang rock shelter in south western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Dated at 28,000 years, it is one of the oldest known pieces of rock art on Earth with a confirmed date.
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According to the legend, Van Gogh sold only one painting, The Red Vineyard, bought for 400 francs by the painter and art collector Anna Boch. [1] Today, he is widely regarded as one of history's greatest painters and an important contributor to the foundations of modern art. Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties, and most of ...
This sale tripled the previous record, and introduced a new era in top art sales. Before this, the highest absolute price paid for a painting was £8.1 million (£22.9 million in 2023 currency) paid by the J. Paul Getty Museum for Andrea Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi at Christie's in London on 18 April 1985. [5]
Name Image Type Creator Ref. The Seated Scribe: Sculpture (Egyptian) [1]Venus de Milo: Sculpture (Greek) Alexandros of Antioch Coronation of the Virgin
Art of Mateo Manaure in University City of Caracas; List of works by Franz Marc; List of sketches of notable people by Marguerite Martyn; Works of Herbert Maryon; List of works by Henri Matisse; List of works by Antonin Mercié; List of works by Jean Metzinger; List of works by Michelangelo; List of artworks by John Middleton
The painting originally was considerable larger. A vertical strip, wide c. 20 cm is missing to the left of David’s harp. Along the bottom the painting was c. 18 cm larger. The top right square piece of canvas above David was replaced by a fragment of a seventeenth-century painting and overpainted Susanna and the Elders: c. 1638–1647: Oil on ...