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One Card, Four Paintings: The Tazzarte Gift Card
Four amounts, four masterpieces. The Tazzarte gift card arrives by email, never expires and lets them choose their own art mug.
One Card, Four Paintings: The Tazzarte Gift Card
Four amounts, four masterpieces. The Tazzarte gift card arrives by email, never expires and lets them choose their own art mug.
The Bayeux Tapestry comes back to England – and...
Men point at a long-tailed star above the words ISTI MIRANT STELLA. It was Halley's Comet – and the omen of 1066.
The Bayeux Tapestry comes back to England – and...
Men point at a long-tailed star above the words ISTI MIRANT STELLA. It was Halley's Comet – and the omen of 1066.
The Man on the Nose
On 21 February 1927 a Swiss seaplane came down off Cape Town after seventy-seven days in the air. The young man standing on its nose was my grandfather.
The Man on the Nose
On 21 February 1927 a Swiss seaplane came down off Cape Town after seventy-seven days in the air. The young man standing on its nose was my grandfather.
Nix et Glacies: The Oldest Snowball Fight in Eu...
Around 1390 a Lombard workshop was illustrating a Latin health handbook. When it reached the entry for snow and ice, the painter did not draw a doctrine. He painted two...
Nix et Glacies: The Oldest Snowball Fight in Eu...
Around 1390 a Lombard workshop was illustrating a Latin health handbook. When it reached the entry for snow and ice, the painter did not draw a doctrine. He painted two...
The Notice That Was Missing a Name
In June 1930 the Cleveland Museum of Art printed Georgia O'Keeffe's White Flower under a copyright notice of three words and no name. What is missing from that line decides...
The Notice That Was Missing a Name
In June 1930 the Cleveland Museum of Art printed Georgia O'Keeffe's White Flower under a copyright notice of three words and no name. What is missing from that line decides...
How Henri Matisse Learned to Draw With Scissors
In 1941, a near-fatal surgery left Henri Matisse too weak to stand at an easel. What followed - a decade of cutting directly into painted paper - became the most...
How Henri Matisse Learned to Draw With Scissors
In 1941, a near-fatal surgery left Henri Matisse too weak to stand at an easel. What followed - a decade of cutting directly into painted paper - became the most...