A lot has been said about Leonardo and music, much of it speculation. But what do we know for sure?
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Leonardo’s obsession with water flowed through his technical work, his art and his scientific ideas.
Many Renaissance-era masterworks depicted rape and sexual assault as erotic. Beginning in the 1970s, artists worked to redefine rape as a crime of aggression and act of female subjugation.
Some colour blind people only have two kinds of cone cell in their eye. Others have three kinds, but the cones do not pick up the same light waves as the cone cells in most people’s eyes do.
Practical advice from an expert about lighting, decoration and furnishings.
Later this month, Christie’s will be auctioning its first piece of AI art – a portrait created via machine learning.
Was it a marketing stunt or a critique of the market itself?
Through his art and his travels, 19th-century French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix sought to understand the chaos of an era he called ‘the century of unbelievable things.’
Born into late-16th century Papal Rome, Gentileschi transcended the path of utter obscurity that was the lot of her female peers to become one of the most famous painters of the day.
The 1973 purchase of Jackson Pollock’s abstract expressionist painting – at a record price for the time – was a controversial moment in Australian art. Was it worth it?
Throughout his life, Brett Whiteley made images of apes and monkeys. He found much in their character and physiognomy to identify with.
Mirka Mora survived the second world war to carve out a unique place for herself in the Australian art world. Over six decades, her creativity was legendary.
Charles Blackman forged an urbanised image of Australia that for most, was more familiar than the mythic landscapes of Sidney Nolan or Arthur Boyd. Yet though familiar, it remains uncomfortable.
As a bushranger in the Kelly gang, Steve Hart took to dressing as a woman and riding side-saddle to avoid detection. Sidney Nolan’s painting captures Hart’s adolescent cockiness, bravery, and foolhardy bluster.
McNaughton’s works elicit giddy mockery from the left and effusive love from the right. Why do they resonate so strongly?
Disease and disorders can affect how we see. Can the images in painted artworks tell us something about the state of an artist’s vision?
What happens to motivated, determined and egotistical men when they are forced to abandon the White House? As John Quincy Adams once said, ‘There is nothing more pathetic in life than a former president.’
White people hugely influence the Aboriginal art world – but that can be a good thing, according to the artists.
It is some years since such a classical work as Yvette Coppersmith’s has won the Archibald.
Hers is a most intelligent self-portrait in the very mannered style of George Lambert’s work.
The lively reconfiguring of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman exhibitions means it is harder to work out which paintings the judges are considering as potential winners.
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
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Personal Chair of 19th-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh
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Lecturer in MA Creative Media Practice, University of the West of Scotland
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Senior Lecturer in History of Art, The Open University
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Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Art History, University of Sydney
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Professor of History and Policy, University of Westminster
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Master of Art in Gallery and Museum Management Program Director, Western Colorado University
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Honorary fellow of the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, The University of Melbourne