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While some try to square the circle, we circle the square...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

...and look for what artists, Old and Modern, have in common.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The result is a language that links one artist to another...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

...even when all seems so odd little on the surface makes sense.

 
 
 
 

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The magic of visual illusion was not an invention of the Surrealists; it has been an integral part of art for centuries.

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Velazquez’s Portrait of Luis de Góngora (1622)...and Picasso’s.

Watch El Greco's thought process over a series of paintings

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El Greco’s Purification of the Temple (c.1570-1610)

Everyone knows that Boating is a masterpiece. Why is it so difficult to explain?

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Manet’s Boating (1874)

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of how Renaissance artists identified with God. Both pervasive and unknown, the idea needs emphasizing to demonstrate its near-ubiquity. Here is yet one more example by Titian.

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Titian’s Christ Blessing (c.1560)

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Find out how even Michelangelo's earliest religious sculpture represents the workings of his own mind

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Michelangelo’s Madonna of the Stairs (c.1491)

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Using visual comparisons of portraits to self-portraits, the book reveals that well-known portraits are not portraits as we think of them at all.

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Every Painter Paints Himself

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