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• Spot the horse: imagining technology reveals hidden secrets of Dutch Golden Age paintings

  24-12-2016 22:00
  
  The Dutch Golden Age artist Pieter Jansz Saenredam (1597-1665) had a Medieval tale about a knight, a magical horse, a tyrannical emperor, brotherly love and the Crusades on his mind when he created The Choir of the Saint Bavo in Haarlem (1636).
  This new information is only known because infrared reflectography (IRR) was used to peek beneath the paint layers to see the original drawing hidden underneath. In Saenredams drawing, a sketch of four men sitting on a horse is drawn on the left pillar.
  
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• Spot the horse: imaging technology reveals hidden secrets of Dutch Golden Age paintings

  24-12-2016 22:00
  
  The Dutch Golden Age artist Pieter Jansz Saenredam (1597-1665) had a Medieval tale about a knight, a magical horse, a tyrannical emperor, brotherly love and the Crusades on his mind when he created The Choir of the Saint Bavo in Haarlem (1636).
  This new information is only known because infrared reflectography (IRR) was used to peek beneath the paint layers to see the original drawing hidden underneath. In Saenredams drawing, a sketch of four men sitting on a horse is drawn on the left pillar.
  
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• Spanish civil war art to be shown in London

  24-12-2016 11:00
  
  Exhibition celebrates Spain’s 1937 International Exposition pavilion, which showcased works by Picasso and MiróAn exhibition coming to London in January will attempt to recreate the impact of the Spanish pavilion of 1937, a little gallery built as cheaply as possible at the Paris International Exposition by Spain’s republican government at the height of the civil war.The fame of the pavilion, which showcased the country’s radical leftwing artists and the horrors that wer
  
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• The Globalization Of The Movie Business And Hollywood's Creative Low Point - Here's The Link

  24-12-2016 07:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  China has been buying up Hollywood assets as it develops its own movie industry. The idea is to be a global movie super-power, and given that Hollywood's financial success now depends less and less on domestic box office and more on international ticket sales, today's movie-makers are in the business of finding movies that translate internationally.
  Don't think you've seen evidence of China's influence on Hollywood? The reason there are so many superhero movies these days is because they sell we
  
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• What's Happening To The Subway Post-It Note Art By New Yorkers Mourning Trump's Election?

  24-12-2016 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  There were at least 20,000 Post-It notes after the election. "The New York Historical Society removed approximately 4,000 notes from the subway station for preservation. Archivists are slated to stick 12 notes at a time between sheets of mylar for protection. There is, as of yet, no plans to display them further."
  
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