Who Was Leonardo’s Mother? A Novelist Has Evidence She Was Enslaved.
An author has a theory that the artist’s mother, Caterina, was kidnapped as a girl in the Caucasus area of Central Asia.>read more at © The New York Times…
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‘Rent was mad’: Artist moves into rubbish skip in protest at ‘crazy’ London costs
An artist builds a home in a rubbish skip in London and plans to live in it for a year, seeking to draw attention to the “crazy” price of renting a room in Britain’s capital during a cost-of-living crisis.>read more at © abc news…
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Centuries-old stolen jewellery returned to Cambodia
Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts says 77 pieces of Cambodian jewellery from the Pre-Angkorian and Angkorian periods have returned to their homeland.>read more at © abc news…
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Leonardo exhibition in Linz
images (cc) 2023 Franz Wieser exhibition about work of Leonardo da Vinci at Leonardowerkstatt Views: 7
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the charming seducer
the devil is a handsome bloke har har har Views: 15
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Across Paris, an Invader Unleashes His Art
Mosaics by a street artist, who calls himself “Invader,” have become part of the fabric of the city. They are everywhere — if you look for them.>read more at © The New York Times…
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Ancient Cave Markings Finally Decoded By Amateur Scientist–A Calendar of When Animals Mated 20,000 Years Ago
An amateur scientist has decoded the meaning of cave markings used in Ice Age drawings—a communication system of early ‘writing’ dating back 14,000 years earlier than any previously known. Ice Age hunter-gatherers were using mysterious markings alongside their drawings of animal prey to store and communicate “sophisticated” information about the behavior…
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