News tagged with art historians

X-ray techniques help art historians verify Rembrandt sketch

(PhysOrg.com) -- Advanced imaging technology from the Brookhaven Labs and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble has revealed an authentic Rembrandt self-portrait in an art authenticity ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 04, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Capturing the fugitive... in art

(PhysOrg.com) -- What do Winslow Homer's For to Be a Farmer's Boy (1887) and Vincent van Gogh's The Bedroom (1889) have in common?

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Professor's algorithms unlock Van Gogh mysteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell electrical engineering professor is helping art historians do a little detective work by using computing algorithms to identify which of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings came from the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Beauty through the ages

Teeth whitening and anti-wrinkle treatments were as sought after in Renaissance times as they are today, a historian claims.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The truth behind Tudor tombs is out there

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Oxford historian is working with space scientists and art historians to analyse Renaissance Tomb-Monuments in Suffolk, which the team hope will unlock secrets of the Tudor Reformation.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Religious beliefs are the basis of the origins of Palaeolithic art

This statement isn't new, but for years anthropologists, archaeologists and historians of art understood these artistic manifestations as purely aesthetic and decorative motives. Eduardo Palacio-Perez, researcher ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 5

Was a 'mistress of the lionesses' a king in ancient Canaan?

The legend is that the great rulers of Canaan, the ancient land of Israel, were all men. But a recent dig by Tel Aviv University archaeologists at Tel Beth-Shemesh uncovered possible evidence of a mysterious ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0