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2,000-year-old mummy portrait looks way ahead of its time

A funerary portrait from Roman Egypt will go up for sale next week, featuring a strikingly modern-looking male subject with piercing hazel eyes and graying hair. The painting is one of 900 or so known ...
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Example or alter ego? : aspects of the portrait historié in Western art from Antiquity to the present / edited by Volker Manuth, Rudie van Leeuwen, Jos Koldewij

Introduction. Part I. Assimilation and deification in the classical portrait historié. From Phidias to Constantine: The Portrait Historié in Classical Antiquity (Stephan T.A.M. Mols, Eric M. Moormann, ...
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The artists behind Chewy's viral pet portraits are furious over a new contract that cracks down on creative control

Your browser does not support the video element. Chewy has become known and loved for surprising customers with portraits of their pets. In August, Chewy announced ...
Forbes

Beneath A Picasso Painting, A Mysterious Hidden Portrait Emerges

Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted a portrait of a sculptor friend, high-tech imaging tools have revealed another portrait hidden beneath it. The concealed image reveals a woman, the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Pennsylvania Museum Discovers Unidentified Rembrandt Portrait in Its Collection

In 1961, the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania acquired a 17th-century portrait of a rosy-cheeked woman dressed in fine fabrics and delicate jewelry. The work was initially attributed to Rembrandt ...
Archaeology

At Face Value

A painting of a woman on lime wood is one of the mummy portraits being studied by researchers using special camera filters under different light wavelengths (left to right: visible, ultraviolet, and ...