Just when you think you’ve seen it all. Today, we are not looking at some great Renaissance masterpiece, but something quite different. Paint has been replaced with dryer lint, meticulously placed by Laura Bell of Roscommon, Mich., to create a 14 ft. wide by 4 ft. high reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. The […]
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August
04
Go Into the Deep
posted by laurieetta
Let’s start with a fun bit of art history. Back in the Renaissance, artists used something called a “cartoon” to help them plan their artwork. Not cartoons like Saturday morning shows—these were big drawings on paper. The word comes from the Italian word carta (meaning paper) and the ending -one, which just means “big.” So […]
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