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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The Goya paintings you aren't supposed to look at
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‘His name was Bélizaire’: Rare portrait of enslaved child arrives at the Met
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The superheroes of beautiful Kinshasa
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Native Americans: Portraits from a century ago
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From the 1910s to the 1930s, John Alinder portrayed the local people of rural Sweden, the landscape around them and their way of life
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“Representation matters!”: Adam Perez on the empowering feeling of seeing yourself in an image
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The peculiarities of pregnancy in art, from corsets to belly pads and hidden bumps
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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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Finland's Munch – The unnerving art of Helene Schjerfbeck
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The powerful faces of women who faced danger
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Photographer Mikael Owunna's 'Infinite Essence' transforms people into cosmos
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A newly-discovered note may finally prove that the much-disputed portrait of young Jane Austen is, in fact, the novelist herself
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These portraits were made by AI: None of these people exist
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Ex-Prime Minister Julia Gillard's portrait unveiled in Parliament House
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The tallest mural in the southern hemisphere is on a Melbourne commission flat
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