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Dutch landscape painting of the seventeenth century
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17th century painting wrecked in Beirut blast restored, on display in LA
In 2020, a massive explosion rocked the port of Beirut in Lebanon. It killed more than 200 people and destroyed homes as far as six miles away. It also damaged a historic piece of art: a previously ...
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Penny for your thoughts
Wise, world-weary and occasionally cynical, proverbs mirror the human experience and remain remarkably insightful today, ...
Stolen From Buddhist Monks, Sacred Painting Is Returned by Chicago Museum
Korean officials discovered the painting in the Smart Museum’s collection at the University of Chicago. It was stolen from a ...
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17th century painting found in CT barn sells for more than $7 million in Sotheby's auction
Forgotten about for years in a Connecticut barn, a painting from 17th century Dutch painter Frans Post fetched more than $7 million in a Sotheby's auction last month. "View of Olinda, Brazil, with the ...
A 17th century painting was sitting "dirty" in a CT barn for years — until It sold for $7M
"It was sitting in a barn for so many years and it was just completely untouched. It was beyond dirty. It was so black that ...
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Patmos: The Greek Island of John’s Revelation
The stunning Greek island of Patmos is the location apostle John received the visions found in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament.
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Paragons of virtue : women and domesticity in seventeenth-century Dutch art
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