Photographer: Robert Howlett | Isambard Kingdom Brunel, builder of the Great Eastern | ca. 1857-1858 | George Eastman House, eastmanhouse.org
Some stories we’ve been reading this week:
- This game was fun (and we admit we were terrible at it): Can you match the contemporary artists with their childhood works?
- It had long been believed that painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti had painted the striking red hair on a Botticelli portrait he owned to make it look more Pre-Raphaelite. New technology shows that the hair actually was Botticelli’s – Rossetti’s changes were elsewhere.
- On a related note, thanks to scientists we also now have a color reconstruction of a painting that Rembrandt painted over centuries ago.
- New findings suggest a Siberian figure covered in a mysterious ‘encrypted code’ is twice the age of the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge. Still no idea what the code, which is composed of carved faces, might mean.
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