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The smaller 1886 version of The Magic Circle, 88 cm x 60 cm (34.6 in x 23.6 in), in a private collection Miranda - The Tempest by J. W. Waterhouse (1916) A study for the painting, c. 1886, in a private collection. The Magic Circle is an 1886 oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse. Two copies of the painting were ...
Henri Breuil asserted that the cave painting represented a shaman or magician — an interpretation which gives the image its name — and described the image he drew in these terms. [4] Margaret Murray having seen the published drawing called Breuil's image 'the first depiction of a deity on Earth', an idea which Breuil and others later adopted.
Magic Mirror is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in January, 1946. It depicts a mirror standing vertically on wooden supports on a tiled surface. The perspective is looking down at an angle at the right hand side of the mirror. There is a sphere at each side of the mirror.
There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, hang in museums all over the world; there are more of them than ...
The Warlock, also known as The Wizard and the Dragon, is the title of two oil on canvas paintings by German painter Carl Spitzweg, from 1875 and 1880. The original painting is now held in the Museum Georg Schäfer, in Schweinfurt, while the other is in a private collection. The two paintings are almost identical in motif but differ in size and ...
The Crystal Ball is a painting by John William Waterhouse completed in 1902. [1] Waterhouse displayed both it and The Missal in the Royal Academy of 1902. The painting shows the influence of the Italian Renaissance with vertical and horizontal lines, along with circles "rather than the pointed arches of the Gothic".
Museum of Art Fakes. Background left: the Hundertwasserhaus. The Museum of Art Fakes (German: Fälschermuseum) is a museum of faked and forged artworks that opened in Vienna, Austria in 2005. This small, privately run museum in the Landstraße district is the only one of its kind in the German-speaking world. [1]
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