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Pushkin Museum of Art

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
Portrait of a white man - Bill Viola

Bill Viola, Who Pioneered Video to Explore Human Consciousness, Dead at 73

Viola is survived by his wife and longtime creative collaborator, Kira Perov, Director of Bill Viola Studio.
By Elisa Carollo

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