The Palace of Versailles houses the world’s largest collection of paintings by the artist Horace Vernet, who – though now grown rather obscure – was once renowned for his triumphal scenes of colonial ...
The most remarkable art collections are awash in great paintings — an artform that’s declared “dead” at least once per decade and yet remains the most popular, valuable and enduring of all.
Peter Sheehy, a history teacher at the Horace Mann School, sat in his bedroom, trolling the Internet. It was the fall of 2006, shortly after lunch on a Saturday afternoon. The school year had just ...
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