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Priest sitting outside the entrance to Abuna Yemata church.
East Tigray, Ethiopia

Abuna Yemata Guh

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.
Sandro Botticelli's <em>The Birth of Venus</em>.
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Found: The Earliest Depiction of Breast Cancer, in Renaissance Paintings

The disease may have been relatively common in the 16th century.
Vittoria Traverso February 28, 2018
Curtain closed.
Taos, New Mexico

D.H. Lawrence Forbidden Art

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.
Emeline Pouyet of Northwestern University (left) and Sandra Webster-Cook of the Art Gallery of Ontario set up the painting for an X-ray fluorescent scan.
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Found: A Hidden Painting Underneath a Picasso

The Spanish master painted his 1902 masterpiece "The Crouching Woman" over a landscape composition.
Vittoria Traverso February 19, 2018
Experts confirmed that <em>Hill of Montmartre with Stone Quarry</em> (1886) was sketched by Vincent van Gogh.
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Found: Two New Drawings by Vincent van Gogh

Sketches of Montmartre by the elusive Dutch Postimpressionist.
Vittoria Traverso January 16, 2018
Pleasantville Curve
Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario

Pleasantville Curve

The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.
Chiesa della Beata Vergine del Soccorso detta "La Rotonda"
Rovigo, Italy

La Rotonda

A rare example of an octagonal Catholic church.
Shadow L almost aligned with painted lettering
Davis, California

Same Sun

On the summer solstice each year, shadows align with a 14,000 square foot painting to reveal a secret message.
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The Artist Who Paints With Fire

Steven Spazuk's flame-powered technique is inspired by 1930s Surrealists.
Ashawnta Jackson December 27, 2017
Researchers used three different imaging technologies to analyze a second-century portrait.
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The Alchemy and Artistry of Ancient Egypt's Funerary Portraits

High-tech imaging tools are taking researchers under the paint, layer by layer.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 21, 2017
Christ carrying the cross - Aleijadinho
Ouro Preto, Brazil

Museu do Aleijadinho

A display of works by one of the world masters sacred art, an 18th-century Brazilian sculptor nicknamed "the little cripple."
A cow being fed by his owner.
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In 19th-Century Britain, The Hottest Status Symbol Was a Painting of Your Cow

The livestock looked surprisingly geometric.
Anne Ewbank December 13, 2017
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Meet the Artist Mapping Ski Slopes Around the World

James Niehues' hand-painted maps have been guiding skiers for 30 years.
Ashawnta Jackson November 24, 2017
Reconstruction of <em>The Enchanted Pose</em> involving X-rays of the four works that were made from it.
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Found: The Last Piece of a Jigsaw Masterpiece by René Magritte

The fourth and final part of a painting hidden under other paintings ends an 80-year mystery.
Vittoria Traverso November 15, 2017
Alexandre Dubuisson's <em>La Moisson</em> was "torn in transit."
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Where Damaged Art Goes When It's Deemed a 'Total Loss'

A second life for wrecked artworks that once languished in insurance warehouses.
Michael Inscoe November 1, 2017
Humble produce makes up the face of "The Vegetable Gardener."
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The Renaissance Painter Who Made Fantastical Portraits From Food

Giuseppe Arcimboldo painted surreal art unlike any of his contemporaries.
Anne Ewbank October 13, 2017
Spotted: three Catholics and a bull trying to blow out the candle of the Reformation.
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The Mystery Hiding in the Cracks of a 17th-Century Painting Has Been Revealed

A cardinal, a bull, a pope, and a monk walk into Yale Divinity School.
Vittoria Traverso October 6, 2017
Permanently Closed
Tonya and Nancy Cross Stitches by Rebecca Greco in the permanent collection
Brooklyn, New York

THNK1994 Museum

A Brooklyn exhibit all about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding in 1994.