RESTORERS using ultraviolet rays have rediscovered rich original details of Giotto’s paintings in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence’s Santa Croce church that have been hi

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Hundreds of people are being asked to shed their clothes to celebrate a Greater Manchester’s art gallery 10th birthday.

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Don’t look! It is a sight too cruel to take: the teenage queen, blindfold, in her petticoat, bravely groping for the block on which to lay her young neck. Behind her, one maidservant swoons while the other turns away. Even the executioner averts his gaze.

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Fernando Perez Hurtado, a civilian judge from San Juan Del Rio, was sacked for trying to impose the “humiliating” sentence on the unnamed 13 year-old.

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Celeb make-up artist Gary Cockerill has just signed a book deal with HarperCollins. Jordan’s pal says of his tome, From Coaldust to Stardust: “There’ll be loads of goss.. some stuff about Pete, but nothing bad. I can’t afford to p*** people off.”

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Celeb make-up artist Gary Cockerill has just signed a book deal with HarperCollins. Jordan’s pal says of his tome, From Coaldust to Stardust: “There’ll be loads of goss.. some stuff about Pete, but nothing bad. I can’t afford to p*** people off.”

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Ai Weiwei, ”one of China’s greatest living artists”, who helped create the spectacular Bird’s Nest Olympic stadium, will take over Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this October.

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Ai Weiwei, ”one of China’s greatest living artists”, who helped create the spectacular Bird’s Nest Olympic stadium, will take over Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this October.

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A lawyer said to have offered to assist in the recovery of a stolen Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece said his clients would “do something very silly” if police were conta

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A lawyer said to have offered to assist in the recovery of a stolen Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece said his clients would “do something very silly” if police were conta

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“Holy Russia.” an exhibit at the Louvre through May 24, examines the impact of Western, Eastern and Middle Eastern culture on Russia since its conception.

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“Holy Russia.” an exhibit at the Louvre through May 24, examines the impact of Western, Eastern and Middle Eastern culture on Russia since its conception.

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Old bikes get a new lease of life as art, design, social commentary and a fun night out

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A RUSE to bring in undercover police swung into action after a lawyer’s “deceptive” offer to assist in the recovery of a £20 million work of art, a court has hea

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A family in America was told by police to cover up their snow sculpture after neighbours complained that it was offensive.

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One of Britain’s richest aristocrats was deeply upset by the theft of a rare and prized painting by Leonardo da Vinci and by the lack of progress in finding it, a jury heard today.

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‘What have I sacrificed’ I’m 40 and I don’t have children. Perhaps I would if I wasn’t so involved in these movies’ What got you started’ Filming thrillers and jungle chases on Super 8 when I was about 10. I was trying to imitate Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars and, above all, Hitchcock. Watching The Man Who Knew Too Much made me realise that there was such a thing as a director. What was …

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I agree with Gia Kourlas that the new scoring system has relegated skating between jumps to “breath-catching transition moves,” but Ms. Kourlas’s thesis that jumping has overcome artistry and sophistication does not hold up in the face of her own evidence.

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A gardener was threatened with an axe as he tried to go after thieves who made off with a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece from a castle, a court heard today.

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Mr. Bachrach was a prominent photographer best known for his portrait of a young senator named John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

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Men demand £4m and threaten to destroy famous work, court hears.

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An 83-year-old artist showcased her work at an exhibition.

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Harare — Despite technical problems that affected the smooth flow of the ninth edition of National Arts Merit Awards held recently, the awards mean a lot to artists.

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Georgia O’Keeffe, the undisputed doyenne of American painting and a leader, with her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, of a crucial phase in the development and dissemination of American modernism, died yesterday at St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe, N.M. She was 98 years old, and had lived in Santa Fe since 1984, when she moved from her longtime home and studio in Abiquiu, N.M.

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More than 5,000 people strip off for a photograph at Sydney Opera House to show Australia’s ‘equal society’.

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The art historians’ hearts sank as soon as they got a proper look at the “Van Dyke” on the wall of a Wiltshire church. The painting they had travelled hundreds of miles to see was clearly an 18th-century copy.

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“HIGHLY suggestive” new paintings by the leading Scottish artist Alison Watt will be unveiled tomorrow to mark the painter’s attempts to break through into the in

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The Saatchi Gallery/Sunday Telegraph Art Prize for schools 2010 is now open for entries.

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A £50 million painting bought for the nation by the National Galleries of Scotland is to tour America for almost a year.

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A gallery dedicated to street art and graffiti opens to promote and sell the work, and offers workshops to the public.

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An exhibition by the Irish sculptor Eva Rothschild is mounted at La Conservera, a former cannery in Ceutí, in Murcia Province in southeastern Spain.

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Mr. Beyeler, one of the world’s foremost dealers of modern art, established a jewel-like small museum, the Fondation Beyeler, to display his private collection of important works.

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Swimmers at a Lancashire leisure centre will be taking a dip of a different kind today as the water is turned red in support of the British Heart Foundation. All Seasons Leisu

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The Cancun and Isla Mujeres Underwater Art Museum’s beautiful and surreal sculptures.

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P Diddy wants to turn the Arctic Monkeys into hip-hoppers.

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P Diddy wants to turn the Arctic Monkeys into hip-hoppers.

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When Caral Gimbel Lebworth, an heiress to the Gimbel Brothers department store chain, died in 2008 at age 93, she left behind an impressive art collection and an 11-room apartment on Park Avenue.

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When Caral Gimbel Lebworth, an heiress to the Gimbel Brothers department store chain, died in 2008 at age 93, she left behind an impressive art collection and an 11-room apartment on Park Avenue.

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Tiles designed by the artist Romare Bearden are being restored in a subway line in Pittsburgh.

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Tiles designed by the artist Romare Bearden are being restored in a subway line in Pittsburgh.

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A new webcam mounted on the Blue Fin Building at Bankside allows local residents to get a glimpse behind the hoardings as preparatory works for Tate Modern’s extension get under way.

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A new webcam mounted on the Blue Fin Building at Bankside allows local residents to get a glimpse behind the hoardings as preparatory works for Tate Modern’s extension get under way.

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Artist Jack Vettriano said he had done well in his “career of wall decoration” as he was crowned this year’s Great Scot.

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Artist Jack Vettriano said he had done well in his “career of wall decoration” as he was crowned this year’s Great Scot.

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AN ECCENTRIC art collector mocked for insisting one of his paintings was an unknown van Gogh has been vindicated 25 years after his death.

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AN ECCENTRIC art collector mocked for insisting one of his paintings was an unknown van Gogh has been vindicated 25 years after his death.

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A brother and sister who lost millions after Christie’s failed to recognise a lost Titian painting have reached an undisclosed settlement with the auction house.

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Obscure Chinese painter Qi Baishi is third top earning artist.

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The painting Le Blute-Fin Mill finally authenticated as the work of Vincent van Gogh, went on display yesterday in a small museum in the Dutch town of Zwolle.

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Apparently, no one ever told Mitchell Lichtenstein, “Hey, buddy, watch your tone.” So his films – 2007’s notorious Teeth and now Happy Tears – are…

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