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  2. Vanitas - Wikipedia

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    A group of painters in Leiden began to produce vanitas paintings in the beginning of the 16th century and they continued into the 17th century. Vanitas art is an allegorical art representing a higher ideal or containing hidden meanings. [5] Vanitas are very formulaic and they use literary and traditional symbols to convey mortality.

  3. The Last Supper (Leonardo) - Wikipedia

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    The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo [il tʃeˈnaːkolo] or L'Ultima Cena [ˈlultima ˈtʃeːna]) is a mural painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1495–1498, housed in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.

  4. The Ambassadors (Holbein) - Wikipedia

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    Though he was a German-born artist who spent much of his time in England, Holbein here displays the influence of Early Netherlandish painting.He used oils which for panel paintings had been developed a century before in Early Netherlandish painting, and just as Jan van Eyck and the Master of Flémalle used extensive imagery to link their subjects to religious concepts, Holbein used symbolic ...

  5. Chemical imaging reveals hidden details in Egyptian paintings

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    Researchers using a cutting-edge technique have discovered hidden details in Egyptian paintings that date back more than 3,000 years. ... most likely due to some change in symbolic meaning over time.

  6. Three unknown Modigliani sketches found hidden in one of his ...

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    Three previously unknown sketches by celebrated 20th century artist Amedeo Modigliani have lurked unseen beneath the surface of one of his paintings.

  7. Hidden face - Wikipedia

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    There are everyday examples of hidden faces, they are "chance images" including faces in the clouds, figures of the Rorschach Test and the Man in the Moon. Leonardo da Vinci wrote about them in his notebook: "If you look at walls that are stained or made of different kinds of stones you can think you see in them certain picturesque views of mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, broad ...

  8. The Persistence of Memory - Wikipedia

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    The Persistence of Memory (Spanish: La persistencia de la memoria) is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism.First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received it from an anonymous donor.

  9. The Son of Man - Wikipedia

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    In 1970, Norman Rockwell created a playful homage to The Son of Man as a 330 by 440 mm (13 by 17.5 in) oil painting entitled Mr. Apple, [7] in which a man's head is replaced, rather than hidden, by a red apple. The painting plays an important role in the 1999 version of The Thomas Crown Affair. [8]

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