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  23 hours ago

  The Royal Tombs of Fontevraud Abbey

  worldhistory.org - Mark Cartwright

  Fontevraud Abbey in the Pays de la Loire region of France was founded in 1101 by Robert D'Arbrissel. This area of France was then controlled by the …

• Mike Munro

  

  19 hours ago

  In Pictures: Before Virtual Reality, There Was M.C. Escher—See Mind-Bending Drawings From a Major New Survey of This ‘One-Man Art Movement’

  artnet.com - Dorian Batycka

  "Virtual Realities" is on view at MFAH through September 5. In what is being billed as the largest M.C. Escher exhibition ever, the Museum of Fine …

• Mike Munro

  

  18 hours ago

  The Brilliantly Nightmarish Art & Troubled Life of Painter Francis Bacon

  openculture.com - by Colin Marshall

  The paintings of Francis Bacon continue to trouble their viewers, not least those viewers who try to slot his work into a particular genre or …

• Mike Munro

  

  1 day ago

  Scratchy Pencil-and-Ink Drawings by Jon Carling Conjure Mythical Beings and Surreal Sorcery

  thisiscolossal.com - Grace Ebert

  From his studio in northern California, artist Jon Carling summons the metaphysical by scrawling scenes tinged with magic and whimsy. He works in pen …

• Mike Munro

  

  1 day ago

  Glasgow Girl's art found in attic to go on display

  bbc.co.uk - BBC News

  An exhibition is to be staged including previously unseen art by Dumfries-born Glasgow Girl Chris Fergusson. Some of the paintings were discovered in the attic of her grandson Jim Henderson, a great supporter of her work, who died last year. They will be put on display alongside work by her daughter …

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  1 day ago

  A New Brushstroke Analysis Reveals Vermeer Was Not the Painstaking Perfectionist Art Historians Long Thought

  artnet.com - Taylor Dafoe

  Experts at the National Gallery of Art discovered underpaintings on two of the artist’s canvases. For generations, art historians believed Johannes …