The show provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the Washington curators ... and painstakingly blending the edges of the paint. But in “Girl with a Flute,” the shadows were much more heavily ...

The painting shows a woman glancing over ... “Plus, she’s an all-American-looking chick, kind of like the girl next door.” He did make a few modifications, such as replacing the Playboy ...

the girl’s head, so superbly modeled that one is almost inclined to forget one is looking at a painting, and that single gleam of light, will alone hold your attention.” The new research also ...

Using electroencephalograms (EEGs), researchers find that looking at original ... felt when face to face with paintings, the analysis also identified how Girl With Pearl Earring especially ...

“But then you look at how he set up that glow on the ... the application of paint to “Girl With a Flute” is relatively clumsy and coarse. Instead of using coarsely ground pigments in the ...

Image Imaging scientists at the National Gallery of Art examining “Girl With the Red Hat ... which had been impossible to tell by looking only at the surface of the finished painting.

Ariana Aspuru: Smola collected all the details he knew about what the paintings looked like so Wallner could have a baseline to work off of. But their initial model didn't look right and the team ...

Among them was his much-beloved rendering of the Morton Salt girl standing beneath a leaking umbrella. The wistful painting, stenciled on the wall of a shelter for runaway youths at the corner of ...

A centuries-old mystery surrounds Vermeer's painting, The Girl with a Pearl Earring. A fresh scientific perspective may now reveal what makes it so captivating. Neuroscientists have measured the brain ...