Researchers Discover Unusual Compound in Famous 17th-Century Painting
Scientists from the Rijksmuseum, CNRS, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Antwerp made a rare discovery of lead…
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Psychologists Find That a 3-Minute Online Art Viewing Can Significantly Improve Your Well-Being
Effects are comparable to those of going to actual art galleries or even being in nature. Visits to art galleries and museums can have a…
How Do You See the World? People With Creative Personalities Really Do See the Things Differently
What is it about a creative work such as a painting or piece of music that elicits our awe and admiration? Is it the thrill…
Child’s Play: Are Tibetan Hand and Foot Traces From 200,000 Years Ago the Earliest Example of Parietal Art?
Fossilized footprints, and more rarely, handprints, can be found around the world left as people went about their daily business, preserved by freak acts of…
What Was Really the Secret Behind Vincent van Gogh’s Success? Magic Formula Revealed by AI
Creative exploration followed by exploitation can lead to a career’s greatest hits. Before developing his famed “drip technique,” abstract artist Jackson Pollock dabbled in drawing,…
Artificial Intelligence Generated Artwork Sells for $432,500 – Is AI a Simple Tool or Creative Genius?
Research Shows How Language Humanizes AI Intelligent algorithms are used to create paintings, write poems, and compose music. According to a study by an international…
Scientists Show How Statistical Physics Can Reveal Art Trends Across Time and Culture
Drawing the Line to Answer Art’s Big Questions Algorithms have shown that the compositional structure of Western landscape paintings changed “suspiciously” smoothly between 1500 and…
Science Reveals Long-Lost Secrets of a Mummy’s Portrait
Scientific analysis of an ancient portrait pigment reveals long-lost artistic details. How much information can you get from a speck of purple pigment, no bigger…
Artistic Enigma Decoded by Robotic X-ray Scanner
A Madonna and Child painting with a history almost as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa’s smile has been identified as an authentic Raphael canvas by…
CERN Timepix Technology Helps Rediscover Lost Painting by the Great Renaissance Master, Raphael
CERN’s Timepix particle detectors, developed by the Medipix2 Collaboration, help unravel the secret of a long-lost painting by the great Renaissance master, Raphael. 500 years…
Queen Elizabeth I Identified As Author of 16th Century Tacitus’ Annals Translation
A new article in the Review of English Studies argues that a manuscript translation of Tacitus’s Annales, completed in the late sixteenth century and preserved…
AI Uncovers New Details About Old Master Paintings
Artificial intelligence has been used to analyze high-resolution digital x-ray images of the world-famous Ghent Altarpiece, as part of an investigative project led by UCL….
Celebrating 60 Years of NASA, Where Art and Science Meet
To celebrate NASA’s 60th anniversary this year, the agency partnered with the National Symphony Orchestra to present a concert in Washington entitled “NSO Pops: Space,…
Scientists Discover Hidden Details in Picasso Blue Period Painting
An international partnership of the Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS), the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and…
Human Obsession With Orchids Goes As Far Back As Roman Times
A careful study of ancient artifacts in Italy has pushed back the earliest documented appearance of orchids from the Renaissance to Roman times. The orchid’s…
Da Vinci’s Last Supper Threatened By Air Pollution
Da Vinci’s famous painting “The Last Supper” has managed to survive to this day, though it has faced its share of threats for centuries. (Surviving…
