Oil paintings missing from UK Buenos Aires dependencies
2009-8-11 8:17:48 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Works of art worth hundreds of thousands of pounds are missing from British embassies and other official buildings around the world, according to a report published in The Times. At least 50 paintings from the Government Art Collection are unaccounte...
100 Great Paintings
2009-5-18 9:11:58 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
100 Great Oil Paintings was a television series created by Edwin Mullins for BBC 2 in 1980, in which he also acted as moderator. He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of color, the hunt, and bathing, picking five oil p...
List of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger
2009-5-18 9:1:22 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
This List of oil paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger contains a selection of the artist's best-known oil paintings, as well as a few notable copies and derivatives of his art, some of which relate to lost works.
The Last Supper (oil paintings)
2009-5-17 8:2:25 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:1 | Quote:0 | Browse:
The Last Supper is a 15th century mural oil painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d'Este. It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the final days of Jesus as narrated in the Gospel of John 13:21, when Jesus announces that one of his Twelve Apostles would betray him.