These discoveries answered one question – what the painted scenes were all about – but still left a central riddle: Why had Moche society finally collapsed?
The Moche left no written record but they did leave a fabulous account of their life and times in paintings on pots and vessels. Many show every-day events and objects such as people, fish, birds and other animals.
From his research, Tommaso thought there could be frescoes of the Roman artist, Pietro Cavallini, hidden under other inferior paintings. Since Cavallini's greatest works had been destroyed, this would be a huge discovery.
Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin went to Tahiti in search of a tropical paradise of voluptuous, bare-breasted women. That's not what he found, but it didn't stop him from painting it.
Most spec projects never see the light of day. Here's a notable, wonderful exception. Italian designer Marco Sodan received global praise for his creative pixelation of famous paintings remade with Lego.
Most spec projects never see the light of day. Here's a notable, wonderful exception. Italian designer Marco Sodan received global praise for his creative pixelation of famous paintings remade with Lego.
Banksy's work sells for hundreds of thousands of pounds and he has become a cult figure in the art world. In July his famous early piece, Gorilla in a Pink Mask, was mistaken for worthless graffiti and painted over!
Banksy's work sells for hundreds of thousands of pounds and he has become a cult figure in the art world. In July his famous early piece, Gorilla in a Pink Mask, was mistaken for worthless graffiti and painted over!
Banksy's work sells for hundreds of thousands of pounds and he has become a cult figure in the art world. In July his famous early piece, Gorilla in a Pink Mask, was mistaken for worthless graffiti and painted over!
Rembrandt used a paintbrush. Sachiko Kodama makes her marks with magnetic fields. Turn on a magnet, and ferrofluid, oil laced with bits of iron oxide, travels up a superstructure and blossoms into a tree.
Rembrandt used a paintbrush. Sachiko Kodama makes her marks with magnetic fields. Turn on a magnet, and ferrofluid, oil laced with bits of iron oxide, travels up a superstructure and blossoms into a tree.
Rembrandt used a paintbrush. Sachiko Kodama makes her marks with magnetic fields. Turn on a magnet, and ferrofluid, oil laced with bits of iron oxide, travels up a superstructure and blossoms into a tree.
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers are a kind of visual shorthand for the artist. In part a meditation on the vagaries of time, the pictures give a colorful twist to the long tradition of Dutch flower painting.
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers are a kind of visual shorthand for the artist. In part a meditation on the vagaries of time, the pictures give a colorful twist to the long tradition of Dutch flower painting.
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers are a kind of visual shorthand for the artist. In part a meditation on the vagaries of time, the pictures give a colorful twist to the long tradition of Dutch flower painting.
Although the country has spent billions of dollars trying to clean up its waterways, China's lakes and rivers still host algae blooms that can turn the environs into a watercolor painting.
Although the country has spent billions of dollars trying to clean up its waterways, China's lakes and rivers still host algae blooms that can turn the environs into a watercolor painting.
Although the country has spent billions of dollars trying to clean up its waterways, China's lakes and rivers still host algae blooms that can turn the environs into a watercolor painting.