“The X-ray had actually been taken years before, and it was just sitting in the file,” exhibition co-curator Kimberly A. Jones of the National Gallery told artnet News, noting that it was co-curator ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Throughout his oeuvre, the Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto (ca. 1485-1556) demonstrated a sustained interest in the depiction of carpets.

David’s original painting of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife depicted the couple as self-indulged nobles rather than liberal leaders of science. Met conservator Dorothy Mahon performs ...