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NEWS ABOUT: portrait

portrait stories: 10 news summaries

 Leibovitz Shoots First Family 

Sasha, Malia throw arms around parents in White House portrait

Oct 23, 09 8:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - New screen saver, anyone? The White House released a new Obama family portrait taken by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz. The First Family sat in the White House’s Green Room for the picture, at left. More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • photography • Annie Leibovitz • first families • portrait • Malia Obama • Sasha Obama • women's issues • Obama family portrait

 Da Vinci Fingerprint 
 IDs Lost Painting 

15th-century portrait hailed as most important Da Vinci find in a century

Oct 13, 09 5:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - A painting bought for $19,000 by a Canadian dealer two years ago has been valued at $150 million after it was determined to be a work by Leonardo Da Vinci. Carbon dating and infrared techniques convinced experts that the portrait on vellum was a genuine Da Vinci. The final... More »

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fingerprint • painting • Leonardo da Vinci • portrait • art dealer

(Newser) - If you think your crazy Uncle Jackie's penchant for lederhosen makes for some uncomfortable family images, you have an online refuge, reports the Telegraph. Awkwardfamilyphotos.com, which debuted this month and is now pulling in 2 million visitors a day, struck a chord with everyone who's ever posed in... More »

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photography • family • blog • portrait • Jay-ZTV

 Rare Portrait 
 Might Not Be 
 Shakespeare 

Experts disagree on authenticity

Mar 20, 09 9:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - A recently rediscovered painting originally thought to be the only surviving portrait of Shakespeare may actually portray a 17th-century courtier, the Telegraph reports. The subject’s clothes are too grand to be the playwright's, experts say, and although the portrait is similar to another image believed to be of the... More »

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William Shakespeare • portrait

 Lifetime Portrait of Bard Found 

Work is only living painting of the Bard

Mar 9, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A family heirloom is thought to be the only surviving portrait of William Shakespeare painted during his life, the Telegraph reports. Art restorer Alex Cobbe noticed that a portrait of the Bard in the Folger Shakespeare library in Washington—known to be a posthumous copy of another work—bore an... More »

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theater • art • painting • play • history • William Shakespeare • portrait • Folger Shakespeare Library

First First Lady Was No Frump

Forget the unflattering paintings; Martha Washington was
quite the fox

Feb 2, 09 9:27 AM CST
(Newser) - Chances are when you think of Martha Washington, you imagine a frumpy old fat lady smothered in lace. Not so, say those who study her and her husband. If you ignore the unflattering images painted years after her death, and instead focus on tailors' records and letters from Martha's youth,... More »

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shoes • history • style • first lady • George Washington • portrait • Martha Washington

 Artist Cooks Up 
 Rachael Ray 
 Nude Portrait 

Alex Gardega will use paprika to paint

Jan 8, 09 11:36 AM CST
(Newser) - The wait is over: You may soon be able to see Rachael Ray naked. Artist Alex Gardega is painting a 6-foot nude portrait of the TV personality, the New York Post reports. Fittingly, the “art-world rebel”—who says modern art “needs a savior … to bring painting... More »

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art • nudity • Rachael Ray • portrait • nude • Alex Gardega

OPINION

Those Bush Portraits
Just Have to Go

Sorry, Mr. President, we hate you

Jan 3, 09 1:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama has plenty to do, but could he take on one more teensy little job? Because those Bush portraits just must come down, Michael Wiseman writes in the Washington Post. Way back in February 2001, the Bush administration rolled out an unusually high portrait deployment, plastering pictures of the... More »

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Bush administration • Bush legacy • portrait

 X-Ray Unveils Hidden Van Gogh 

Portrait of peasant found behind 1887 painting

Jul 30, 08 7:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - European scientists today revealed a Van Gogh portrait of a peasant's head behind one of his paintings, LiveScience reports. Using a new X-ray technique, the researchers pulled out the portrait's brown and red pigments, which Van Gogh covered with Patch of Grass, 1887. The scientists, primarily from Belgium and the... More »

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art • painting • Vincent Van Gogh • portrait • X-rays

 Greek Claims 'Last' Van Gogh 

Work said to be 'liberated' from Nazis billed as third portrait of Dr. Gachet

May 19, 08 6:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - A painting under examination in Greece is being billed as the last work of Vincent van Gogh, the Guardian reports. Seized by the Nazis from French Jews, then "liberated" by Greek resistance fighters in 1944, the work appears to be a third portrait of van Gogh’s physician, Dr.... More »

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art • Greece • Nazi • World War II • Vincent Van Gogh • Athens • Fine art market • portrait

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