19 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Famous Paintings

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Technically, there’s no earring in Girl with a Pearl Earring. 1. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer VCG Wilson/Corbis / Fine Art / Contributor via Getty Images Vermeer didn’t actually paint the empty background in Girl with a Pearl Earring. He painted a green curtain that has faded with time. […]

Looking Close at the Fragile Beauty of Chinese Painting

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It always feels like early autumn in the Chinese painting galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The lighting is warm but low; the décor, wheat-beige and nut-brown. Despite sparks of color, the ink-and-brush paintings are visually subdued; their images can be hard to read from even a short distance […]