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A group of French analysts suggest that the Renaissance painter, who liked to experiment, used a mixture of oil with lead oxide for the first layer of La Gioconda
Recalling his mother’s final days in Artforum’s September 1989 issue, the late critic Pier Luigi Tazzi wrote that she spoke to him “with the same cautious delicacy that two lovers might use upon discovering, joined in an embrace or immediately after, the strongest, most mysterious, and serious part of the love that unites them and reveals them—and this gentleness covers all violence, as it does all pain.” Read in light of ongoing discussions around caregiving and the relational work of motherhood—see Nikki Columbus’s contribution to the magazine’s Summer issue—Tazzi’s intim...
From a medieval monk mixed with a fish to the call of an extinct Hawaiian bird, this entertaining show revels in nature’s marvels – real or otherwise
The sketches of Italian genius Leonardo da Vinci suggest that his understanding of gravity was centuries ahead of his time. Da Vinci's sketches, which have been neglected for decades, reveal [...]
When Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t painting a masterpiece or dreaming up flying machines, he was pondering the mysteries of gravity. The Renaissance t