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Exploring The World's Top 10 Famous Art Masterpieces

Explore iconic paintings by da Vinci, van Gogh, and Picasso, each with unique styles and themes.

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Activists Splash Soup On Glass-protected Mona Lisa

Two protesters on Sunday hurled soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in Paris, demanding the right to "healthy and sustainable food", an AFP journalist saw.

International Business Times

Protesters throw soup at Mona Lisa in Paris

Visitors at Louvre look on in shock as Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece attacked by environmental protesters

The Guardian - UK

Russian billionaire who bought Trump’s mansion blames Sotheby’s after losing millions on art

Sotheby's is defending itself at a federal court trial against accusations that it participated in the defrauding of a Russian oligarch out of tens of millions of dollars for works by famed artists like Amedeo Modigliani and Leonardo da Vinci

The Independent UK

The Notebook by Roland Allen review – notes on living

From plans for flying machines to philosophy – the remarkable joy of jotting things down

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‘Perfect linearity’: why Botticelli’s drawing abilities remain one-of-a-kind

An expansive exhibition in San Francisco brings together the artist’s influential work, including five newly attributed pieces

The Guardian - UK

The Isleworth Mona Lisa: have Leonardo da Vinci fans worshipped the wrong portrait for centuries?

Some argue this painting depicts the artist’s subject in her younger years and is the first version of his iconic work. Others are less convinced

The Independent UK

French dealer sued for buying African mask ‘rarer than da Vinci painting’ for £130 and selling it for £3.7m

Gabon’s government demands rare artefact of ancestors be returned home: ‘This mask has a soul’

The Guardian - UK

No one can draw from life like David Hockney – but more than ever are trying

Growing numbers of hobbyists are attempting to emulate the artist and capture the truths of the human body at life drawing classes

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Drink, lechery and fellatio by snake: was the Renaissance a sexually subversive love-in?

From Bosch’s crazed party to the homoerotic images Michelangelo smuggled into the Vatican, this was an age of taboo-busting. And, as our writer argues in a new book, it sparked its own culture wars

The Independent UK

Scientists winkle a secret from the `Mona Lisa' about how Leonardo painted the masterpiece

The “Mona Lisa” has given up a secret

The Conversation

Art and science entwined: This course explores the long, interrelated history of two ways of seeing the world

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

The Independent UK

Vatican opens up a palazzo built on ancient Roman ruins and housing its highly secretive tribunals

The Vatican has opened the doors to one of Renaissance Rome’s most spectacular palazzos in a show of transparency

The Guardian - US

‘A towering figure’: celebrating the impact of art critic Leo Steinberg

A new book, The Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas, looks at the expansive collection and defining criticism of the ground-breaking art critic

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Under Cover of Knight; The Missing Madonna; The Trial of Lucy Letby; Four Sides of Seamus Heaney – review

A woman’s death in Texas is unexpectedly mundane and the nurse’s court case a little too lurid. But there’s lots to love in the true story of a stolen Leonardo and a portrait of the Irish poet

The Guardian - UK

‘Unparalleled treasure trove’ of 16th-century texts worth $25m up for auction

The collection of T Kimball Brooker comprises more than 1,300 texts, including an early edition of Leonardo da Vinci’s treatise on painting

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