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Stories behind the art
All stories →The lives, rumors, and heartbreaks inside the paintings — told like someone who can’t wait to show you.
Antonello da Messina Paintings Stolen from Sicily’s MuMe: What Was Taken and Why It Matters
Thieves bypassed alarms during Messina’s Assumption celebrations and took four panels by the city’s greatest painter — including most of the San Gregorio Polyptych.
Manet Never Took Students. Then He Met Eva Gonzalès.
The painter who was portrait, pupil, and rival all at once — and died six days after her teacher.
The Actress in Three Masterpieces
Degas made her tragic. Manet made her lonely. Renoir made her the life of the party. Same woman.
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Most talked about
What people are saying about the works in the gallery.
“Is she turning toward us or away? I have looked at this a hundred times and I still cannot decide. I think that is the w…”
Isabella Fuentes · ♥ 9 · on Johannes Vermeer — Girl with a Pearl Earring
“The Ferris Bueller painting! I know it is so much more than that, but that scene of Cameron staring at the little girl i…”
Nicole Barnes · ♥ 8 · on Georges Seurat — A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884
“Stood in front of this in New York years ago and the line was 45 minutes. Worth every second. What surprised me is how t…”
Marcus Bell · ♥ 7 · on Vincent van Gogh — The Starry Night
“I taught this painting to high schoolers for twenty years. Every year someone would point out that the room looks crooke…”
Joan Whitaker · ♥ 6 · on Vincent van Gogh — The Bedroom
“Unpopular opinion after seeing her in person: the crowd is the artwork. Three hundred phones in the air and she just sit…”
Brian Kelly · ♥ 6 · on Leonardo da Vinci — Mona Lisa
Claude Monet — The Pool of London
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