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Nu Couché au coussin Bleu, one of the finest examples of reclining nudes by Modigliani, 1916

Art Prices are Obscene .

Art prices at ‘obscene’ levels as Chinese join high-spending elite says Richard Partington, the Guardian’s economics correspondent.

Art, Greed, Inequality
Rembrandt, Belshazzar's Feast, 1635, (National Gallery, London). The message is written in vertical lines starting at the top right corner, with "upharsin" taking two lines.

Rembrandt – Belshazzar’s feast

Rembrandt – Belshazzar’s feast: the literature, art and music of religion still hold a vast sway over the imagination of many of us.

Art, History, Religion
Van Eyck - Untitled, known in English as The Arnolfini Portrait, The Arnolfini Wedding, The Arnolfini Marriage, The Arnolfini Double Portrait, or Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife

Van Eyck – The Arnolfini Portrait

Jan van Eyck painted what has become known as the Arnolfini Portrait in 1434.

Art, Beauty
Holbein - The Ambassadors

Hans Holbein – The Ambassadors

A rich and engaging portal into the mind of an age emerging into the modern world.

Art, Renaissance

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