@EnglishBlase, Author at Art News Global

21 Dec Rare Gold Tongues Found in Egyptian Burial Chamber

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In the English-speaking world, referring to someone as silver-tongued suggests a smooth and cunning speaker. More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians went one better by placing a golden tongue in the mouth of the deceased so that they would be able to speak...

20 Dec Painting by an Elusive Renaissance Master Is Hiding in Plain Sight

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To plan or to improvise? This was, in broad strokes, a vital question facing 16th-century Italian painters. Florentine artists favored careful design, a process that began with disegno, drawing. Their Venetian counterparts, by contrast, largely focused on colorito, coloring, often composing directly onto canvas with...

19 Dec Pharrell Williams Joins UNESCO as Its Newest Goodwill Ambassador

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18 Dec Rare Books From William Morris’s Printing Press Dazzle at Auction

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Kelmscott Press may have only operated for seven years at the end of the 19th century, but its legacy as a high-water mark in British printing endures. It was a late career passion project from the pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris, who...

18 Dec Westminster Abbey Reveals Surprising Tie to Holy Roman Emperor

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A Medieval silk bag the size of a clenched fist is revealing previously little-known links between Westminster Abbey and Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor. The bag, which remains in the Abbey’s collection and was used in 1267 during the reign of Henry III, shares a...