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Color pastels, colored chalk, colorful chalk. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society
Ultimate Art Quiz
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Artists, Painters, & Architects
Tate Modern extension Switch House, London, England. (Tavatnik, museums). Photo dated 2017.
Can You Match These Lesser-Known Paintings to Their Artists?
"The Birth of Venus," tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi, Florence.
Who Painted the Most Expensive Paintings in the World?
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25 Famous Paintings to See the Next Time You’re in Florence
Vandalized Art list. Combo of EB owned illustration (top) and parent Asset 182294. 4 of 11 The Rokeby Venus by Diego Velazquez was hit with a meat cleaver by Mary Richardson
Art Abuse: 11 Vandalized Works of Art
A visitor looks at Tom Thomson's painting 'The West Wind' at an exhibition unveiled in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Sept. 10, 2004.
The Group of Seven Remembered
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Art History: The Origins of 7 of Your Favorite Art Supplies
Members of the public view artwork by Damien Hirst entitled: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living - in the Tate Modern art gallery on April 2, 2012 in London, England. (see notes) (1991) Tiger shark, glass, steel
Vile or Visionary?: 11 Art Controversies of the Last Four Centuries
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What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.
Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks
Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.
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Also Known As Thomas John Thomson
Born August 4, 1877 • Canada
Died July 8, 1917 (aged 39) • Algonquin Provincial Park • Canada

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Canadian painter
Alfred Joseph Casson
Canadian painter
Emily Carr
Canadian painter and author
Kane, Paul: Native American Encampment on Lake Huron
Paul Kane
Canadian painter
A.Y. Jackson
Canadian landscape painter
Cornelius Krieghoff
Dutch-Canadian painter
Jean de Limbourg
Flemish artist
Herman de Limbourg
Flemish artist
Paul de Limbourg
Flemish artist
David Octavius Hill
Scottish painter
Robert S. Duncanson
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Streeton, Arthur
Australian artist
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter
Alfred Stieglitz: photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe
American painter
Mondrian, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1942.
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter
Nicolas Poussin: Adoration of the Golden Calf
Nicolas Poussin
French painter
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne
French artist

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