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A series of drawings which Michelangelo made for a younger man he is thought to have fallen in love with, have gone on display at London's Courtauld Gallery.

The Dream is considered one of the finest of all Renaissance drawings.
The exhibition is built around his masterpiece The Dream (Il Sogno), bequeathed to the gallery in 1978.
It [...]

Ansel Adams was the poet of the gray spectrum, the man who dipped the American sublime into the inkpot of black-and-white photography and by that means made it new again. So persuasive were his methods that because of him we tend to think of the national parks the way we think of the Great Depression, [...]

ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2009) — If you don’t have the time to travel to Florence, you can still see Michelangelo’s statue of David on the Internet, revolving in true-to-life 3D around its own axis.

Virtual archive for works of art from all over the world: Objects will be reproduced three-dimensionally. The visible exhibits come from the [...]

A new Leonardo da Vinci portrait may have been discovered after a fingerprint found on it seemed similar to another discovered on his work.

The work could date back to the late 15th Century.
A Paris laboratory found the fingerprint is "highly comparable" to one on a da Vinci work in the Vatican.
Antiques Trade Gazette reported that [...]

One late night in 2007, Rogelio Bernal Andreo and his wife were driving down Highway 1 along California’s Lost Coast, when his wife opened the moon roof. What spread out above them looked nothing like the mauve sky near their Sunnyvale home.

“It was like the Milky Way was in front of us,” said Andreo, a [...]

ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2009) — A team of engineers and artists working at the University of Washington’s Solheim Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory has developed a way to create glass objects using a conventional 3-D printer. The technique allows a new type of material to be used in such devices.

An object printed from powdered glass, using the [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – He writes, he sings, he sometimes exchanges blows in the boxing ring. But Bob Dylan is also familiar with another type of canvas as a quietly prolific painter.

Bob Dylan’s Train Tracks is seen in this undated handout photograph released in London June 9, 2008.
REUTERS/Bob Dylan/Handout
Nearly 100 artworks from the noted [...]

ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2009) — Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks.

Marc Levoy, professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering and graduate student Andrew Adams with [...]

ScienceDaily (Sep. 2, 2009) — How do you tell when, where and how a Picasso or a Matisse sculpture was cast? Could bronze sculptures have their very own DNA?

Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago have teamed up to solve some of the mysteries behind works in the museum’s collection, including bronze sculptures. (Credit: [...]

 
The illustration above is hidden beneath artist N. C. Wyeth’s painting "Family Portrait" (below). Researchers are using a new X-ray technique to identify the original details and colors of the "fist-fight" image (above) hidden underneath this "Family Portrait" painting. (Credit: Brandywine River Museum)

ScienceDaily (Aug. 24, 2009) — Scientists report use of a new X-ray imaging [...]