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The Nativity
Although we don’t know who painted this work, we do know it was created in the 1500s by an Italian artist who copied an original painting by Jacopo Bassano. At the time, Italy...
Read ArticleTouchstones of the Twentieth Century: A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame
The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame has placed on view a landmark exhibition to coincide with the publication of a two-volume catalogue documenting the history...
Read ArticleRichard Hunt: Legend, Friend
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watch videoCFAAL 397 (HTR)
Jessica Eaton is a Canadian photographer whose work explores the components of the photographic process itself. Light, color, time, and the capacities of lenses, shutters, film...
Read ArticleDeborah Butterfield
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watch videoPictographic War Record
Mee-nah-tsee-us or White Swan was a member of the Apsáalooke or Crow tribe which resides in what is today western Montana. It is believed he was born around 1851 and died when he...
Read ArticleUntitled by Agustin Fernandez
Agustin Fernandez was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1928. He received his early artistic training there at the Academy of San Alejandro but left Cuba soon after graduating for New York...
Read ArticleThe Blue Carborundum Robe
Jim Dine has long been on the cutting edge of the Contemporary art scene from his early days in New York, working with artist Claes Oldenburg, his work on Happenings and...
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watch videoCovered Server
The ceramic artist Margarete Heymann-Marks Löbenstein or Margarete Heymann-Marks or Margarete Heymann-Löbenstein or Grete Marks may be known by many different names around the...
Read ArticleA Walk in the Park
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watch videoLaocoön and His Sons
In the late 17th and 18th centuries, the craze for Greek and Roman antiquities was so intense that some sculptors made their reputations restoring fragments of ancient sculpture...
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