News tagged with national gallery in london
The art of faking it: gallery puts forgeries on show
The National Gallery in London will exhibit a collection of fake and wrongly-attributed paintings next year, in a show exploring how modern science has lifted the lid on centuries of forgery.
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Why have Murillo's skies turned grey?
Smalt was one of the blue pigments the most commonly used by the artists between the 16th and 18th centuries. Unfortunately, this pigment is unstable and tends to fade with time. Researchers from the new European ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
May 19, 2011 |
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Internet helps museums net new art lovers
The world's great museums are increasingly using the Internet and social networking sites to pique the interest of people who might never think of setting foot in an art exhibition.
Feb 06, 2011 |
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Google offers Street View art gallery tours (Update)
Art lovers will be able to stroll through some of the world's most famous galleries at the click of a mouse after Google put the venues online Tuesday using Street View technology.
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Researchers demonstrate highly unidirectional 'whispering gallery' microlasers
Utilizing a century-old phenomenon discovered in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, applied scientists at Harvard University have demonstrated, for the first time, highly collimated unidirectional microlasers.
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Visualizing the Aztecs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has visited the ancient ruins of great civilizations can appreciate the difficulty of visualizing the buildings at their peak. Today's visitor to the British Museum can see structures ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Britain's National Gallery offers its art on the iPhone
Fans of fine art will be able to access some of their favourite paintings anywhere they choose through a new iPhone application launched Tuesday by the National Gallery in London.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Explorers find hundreds of identical species thrive in both Arctic, Antarctic
Earth's unique, forbidding ice oceans of the Arctic and Antarctic have revealed a trove of secrets to Census of Marine Life explorers, who were especially surprised to find at least 235 species live in both ...
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Feb 15, 2009 |
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Plasmonic whispering gallery microcavity paves the way to future nanolasers
The principle behind whispering galleries - where words spoken softly beneath a domed ceiling or in a vault can be clearly heard on the opposite side of the chamber - has been used to achieve what could prove ...
Jan 24, 2009 |
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