Today’s smartphones go a thousand times over the best cameras of the past, so travelers have it easier and easier. When you return from the trip with thousands and thousands of photographs, it is worth considering taking fewer but better photos. Richard l’Anson, the author of the Lonely Planet Image Gallery, gives some of his …
While the subject-matter may be ordinary – the preparation of food, eating and drinking, the enjoyment of music or a family game – the painting is rich and jewel-like, with equal attention paid to a discarded clay pipe as to a fine silk drape. The meticulously documented details often allude to a work’s deeper meaning or to moral messages …
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Leonardo’s famous portrait has long been thought to be of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine silk merchant. It is thought the Renaissance master painted it between 1503 and 1517 while he worked in Florence, and then later in France. However, Cotte has used Layer Amplification Method (LAM), a process of projecting a series …
