Lines and Colors art blog

Month: February 2012

  • Mona Lisa copy from Da Vinci’s workshop

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    A painting in the collection of the Prado in Madrid that was long assumed to be a copy of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa done at a later time was recently cleaned and restored, revealing a previously unseen background where there was once just dark, and on further examination is now thought to be a copy…

  • 1920’s Chicago promotional posters on Imprint

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    In a recent post to his always interesting column, J.J. Sedelmaier has written an article for Imprint on a fascinating promotional poster series in Chicago in the early 20th century: A True Visionary Gives Chicago A Landmark Branding Campaign Circa 1920-30. With the help of Dave at Poster Plus, Sedelmaier has accompanied the article with…