Following Norway’s national painter through a landscape of mountains and fjords – Harald Sohlberg is celebrated within his native country and almost unknown outside it
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Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi's paintings had a recurring mysterious woman with her back turned – here, through letters and photos, her sadness-tinged story is revealed
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Pål Enger, talented Norwegian soccer player turned celebrity art thief who pulled off the sensational 1994 heist of Edvard Munch's famed “The Scream”, has died
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Painting stolen from Chatsworth House forty-five years ago discovered at auction
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The Goya paintings you aren't supposed to look at
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What birdwatching in the Garden of Earthly Delights can teach us
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Explore Edvard Munch's masterpiece “The Scream,” and find out why this artwork became one of the world's most famous paintings | Noah Charney
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Art restoration fail
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On this day nineteen years ago, Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' was stolen in broad daylight from an Oslo museum
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‘His name was Bélizaire’: Rare portrait of enslaved child arrives at the Met
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How Stuart Little uncovered an avant-garde masterpiece missing for almost a century
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The bizarre, true story of the world’s greatest living art thief
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All of Vincent van Gogh's 1515 paintings and drawings
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Stunning century-old illustrations of Tibetan fairy tales from the artist who created Bambi
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How Edvard Munch's friend Thomas Olsen hid the masterpiece 'Dance on the Beach' in a remote barn in the Norwegian forest to foil the Nazis
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Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for seventy-five years
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Mona Lisa targeted in Louvre cake-throwing attack. Famous work by Leonardo da Vinci wasn't damaged.
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Why does this lady have a fly on her head?
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Norway's £500m National Museum to open after eight-year wait – director apologises for delays that have kept Munch's The Scream out of public view
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The collective MSCHF bought an Andy Warhol, created 999 replicas, and is now selling each for $250. The catch: you'll never know which one is real.
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Tour of the sacred library
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The library of rare colors
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Meet some of the last papyrus makers in Egypt keeping a 5,000-year-old craft alive | Still Standing
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Edvard Munch wrote mysterious graffiti on The Scream, infrared scans have shown – a small and barely visible sentence has been the cause of much conjecture in the art world
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Why Japanese tigers have flat heads: Painted screen by Maruyama Okyo 円山応挙
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John Waters bequeaths his art collection to Baltimore Museum of Art, whose bathrooms will be named in his honor
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Artistic enigma decoded by cosmic Czech start-up
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Conserving a painting by Sir Winston Churchill
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Art42, Infinite AI generated paintings
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The cutest little philosophers you’ve ever seen
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Human breath taking its toll on The Scream, say scientists – they have discovered Edvard Munch accidentally used an impure tube of cadmium yellow
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A 44,8 gigapixel photo of Rembrandt's The Night Watch painting (do not open on mobile data)
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Learn about three famous paintings from one of the National Gallery’s curators
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Blue skies smilin' at me; conserving a Henry Ranger seascape
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The awakening of Norman Rockwell
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Gloomy Van Gogh self-portrait in Oslo gallery confirmed authentic – only known painting by Dutch master while he had psychosis is unmistakably his work
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The conservation of Salvator Mundi (No, not that one)
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Danish artist Tal R seeks to stop his work being cut up to make watches
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A piece of kitchen art sold for $26 million. A long-lost painting by Italian pre-Renaissance artist Cimabue had been hanging above a stove in an elderly French woman’s home.
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How art created stereotypes of the Arab world
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Microscopically reweaving a 1907 painting
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The scandalous painting that helped create modern art | Édouard Manet's Olympia
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The conservation of George Inness' "The Roman Campagna"
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Where are all the Bob Ross paintings? We found them.
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Where are all the Bob Ross paintings? We found them.
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Finland's Munch – The unnerving art of Helene Schjerfbeck
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Last year, a museum in France dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus discovered that over half of its collection was fake. Phil Hoad spent nine months investigating how it happened.
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A painting long thought to be a fake Botticelli turned out to be real. British conservators confirmed the authenticity of “Madonna of the Pomegranate” via X-ray and infrared tests.
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Newly uncovered Georgia O'Keeffe letters shed light on her greatest paintings
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Thieves steal a famous painting from an Italian church — but don't worry, it's fake
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