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42 Famous Artworks Made Funnier By Svetlana Petrova Inserting Her Orange Cat Into Them (New Pics)

What happens when some of the world’s most famous masterpieces get an unexpected feline addition? Artist Svetlana Petrova’s ongoing Fat Cat Art project answers that question by inserting her beloved ginger cat, Zarathustra, into iconic works by Van Gogh, Vermeer, Dalí, Botticelli, Magritte, and many others. With his dramatic poses,…

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Experts Solve Botticelli’s Birth Of Venus Side‑Eye Mystery, And The Reason Is Devastating

A new study has suggested that Simonetta Vespucci may have succumbed to a far more serious illness than tuberculosis.

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Demna brings sexy back in effort to reinvigorate Gucci

Designer’s first catwalk for the brand in Milan flirts with bad taste with short, tight dresses and a diamante G-string

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Live From Gucci’s Fall Fashion Show: The First Runway Looks of the Demna Era

Fashion’s most infamous provocateur brought drama even before the show began.

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‘Not for ogling’: forget Titian, Botticelli and the male fantasists – only women can paint great female nudes

From Yoko Ono to Frida Kahlo, from Louise Bourgeois to Artemisia Gentileschi, women have long been capturing the unvarnished truth about their own bodies – and that’s why my novel Female, Nude weaves them into the plot

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The Innocents of Florence by Joseph Luzzi review – how abandoned babies spurred a flowering of Renaissance art

The precarious, cruel but dazzling world of a foundling hospital is brought wonderfully to life by the author of Botticelli’s Secret

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Cyborgs, snapchat dysmorphia and AI-led surgery: has our digital age ruined beauty?

From photo-editing apps to ‘Instagram face’, technology has radically altered the way we see ourselves. Ahead of a new exhibition at Somerset House, our critic considers the meaning of art in a digital age

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‘I’ve been told off for taking snaps too’: our critic on the selfie-taking crackdown at the Uffizi gallery

As another piece of art falls victim to social media, Florence’s Uffizi gallery is placing restrictions on visitors’ behaviour. Is this a sensible safeguard – or simple snobbery?

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78 Classical Art Memes That Have No Business Being So Hilarious

What does Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” and the drudgery of zoom meetings have in common?

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Oliver touts favorite Eurovision star

A man with "blonde locks and pervert glasses hatching out of a denim egg? It’s like Botticelli’s 'Birth of Venus'"

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‘It’s a queered up history of art’: the provocateur turning Gaga and Kardashian into weeping saints

Why are there almost no tears in great works of art? Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli is rectifying this – by embroidering balloon-shaped drops on to modern mashups of Giotto and Botticelli

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Exploring The Top 10 Renaissance Of Online Trends

Discover a unique blend of Renaissance masterpieces and online crazes in these 10 imaginative reimaginings.

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50 Times People Took Pictures, Only To Realize It Was ‘Accidental Renaissance’ (New Pics)

Maybe it's true what Oscar Wilde once said, "life imitates art far more than art imitates life." The post 50 Times People Took Pictures, Only To Realize It Was ‘Accidental Renaissance’ (New Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Dick Wolf Donates More Than 200 Pieces of Art to The Met

Works from Van Gogh and Botticelli given as museum plans Dick Wolf Galleries

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Madonna throws a riotous, decadent feast … Luigi & Iango’s best photograph

‘We originally considered doing a re-imagining of The Last Supper – but with Madonna all alone. Then we decided to go further’

Evening Standard

Evelyn de Morgan, The Gold Drawings at Leighton House review: a bijou show but burnished to brilliance

It’s just one room of works on paper but this exhibition is rich and intriguing

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re like an island’: inside Florence’s secret neighbourhood

Only minutes from the centre of one of Italy’s most visited cities, the Sant’Ambrogio district has managed to stay under the tourist radar. Locals in market square tell us what makes it so special

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Botticelli’s Secret by Joseph Luzzi review – a great mystery in the picture

Why did Botticelli endure centuries of obscurity? And what happened to those Dante illustrations? A fresh account of the Renaissance explores the answer

The Independent UK

Jean Paul Gaultier sued over use of Venus image ‘without permission’

Botticelli’s masterpiece appears in the designer’s Le Musée collection

The Conversation

Will baby drop boxes from the Italian Renaissance become more common after Meloni win?

In Italy, abortion has been legal since 1978. But now that Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party has won the national election and the far-right form a majority in both the Italian Parliament and Senate, access to abortion in Italy could face new restrictions.

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Reframed: The Woman in the Window review – all eyes on her indoors

From Phoenicia to lockdown Britain, this ingenious show exploring the age-old motif of the woman in the window makes you re-evaluate the very act of looking

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Socks, squats and sex workers: The Woman in the Window review

This thoughtful exhibition shows how artists have utilised windows for more than just voyeuristic thrills. But it has a Vermeer-shaped hole

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