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While immuring wives in walls is strictly outlawed (and largely apocryphal), the practice of hiding things behind sheetrock ...

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A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory ...

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Partly damaged by the catastrophic 1966 flood of the Arno, Michelangelo's Florence tombstone just got a $118,000 restoration.

Several years ago, I had the honor of participating in the restoration of Michelangelo’s tomb and the adjacent altarpiece by Giorgio Vasari. That’s when I met Paola Rosa and Emanuela Pieretti. They ...

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All three may have shown scenes from the life of Jesus, combining to make ... First documented by Renaissance artist and historian Giorgio Vasari in Lives of the Artists, the work was stolen ...