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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

A close-up Renaissance painting depicts Christ half-length against a dark background, his bare torso softly lit, head tilted and eyes lowered in a quiet, sorrowful expression beneath a crown of thorns.

Antonello da Messina’s Rare Double-Sided Masterpiece Will Lead Sotheby’s Old Masters Sales

With only around 40 surviving works—nearly all held in museum collections—the artist's paintings are among the rarest of any Renaissance master to appear at auction.
By Elisa Carollo
A brightly colored wall installation displays repeated Financial Times front pages and layered painted imagery, with an additional large mixed-media panel hanging in front of a glass wall.

In Rotterdam, Mandy El-Sayegh Offers Up an Assault on the Senses

The exhibition foregrounds the political and colonial histories embedded in the materials that define the artist’s practice.
By Henry Roberts

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