How the Mona Lisa Became the World’s Most Mysterious Painting
On the morning of August 22, 1911, a Louvre employee named Louis Béroud arrived to sketch the Mona Lisa and found only four iron pegs on the wall….
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How Perspective Changed the World Inside a Painting
A Flat Wall Learns to Have Depth In the early 1420s, in front of Florence Cathedral, an architect held up a small painted panel and a mirror and…
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How the Renaissance Rewired the Rules of Art
In the 1420s, worshippers stepped into the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence and encountered something that made many of them stop in place. On a flat…
