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Does the Met’s Vermeer Painting Hide a Self-Portrait of the Artist? Here’s What a New X-Ray Analysis Found

The blockbuster Johannes Vermeer show at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is continuing to teach us more about the the Dutch Golden Age master, with experts at the museum’s symposium in March presenting X ...
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Is a Vermeer self-portrait hiding behind his ‘sleeping maid’ at the Met? The museum has provided another clue

Research has revealed that there is an overpainted figure in the background of Vermeer’s A Maid Asleep (1656-57) The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913 Recent research by the ...
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A Star Is Born: Artnet’s Matthew Parciak Introduces Cindy Sherman’s Rare Early Vintage Self-Portrait in Our Select Photographs Auction

American photographer and filmmaker Cindy Sherman, recognized for her wide-ranging conceptual self-portraits, is considered one of the most influential contemporary artists working today. An ...