NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art is fabulous – and huge! If short on time, pieces you must see at the Met include the Van Gogh paintings, Egyptian art and "Madame X."

Art historians have scratched their heads for decades over the identity of the friendly-looking young man in one of Van Gogh's most celebrated paintings.

The woman with her hair loose was one of Van Gogh’s first models in Antwerp. In a letter, he described this work at length: ‘In the female portrait I have introduced lighter tones into the flesh – white tinted with carmine, vermilion, yellow and a light ground of gray-yellow, from which the face is separated only by the black hair. Lilac tones in the clothes.’ This change in his palette came after he had seen the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens in the Antwerp museum. The 17th-century master’s treatment of hands and faces fascinated him: ‘it is so alive – [look at] the heads alone.’ [Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - Oil on canvas, 35 x 24 cm]

Dieses Poster zeigt ein Gemälde von Van Gogh mit einem Hut. Das Gemälde ist im Stil von hochdetaillierten, intensiven Ausdrücken und epischer Porträtmalerei gehalten. Es wurden traditionelle Ölmaltechniken verwendet, um das Bild zum Leben zu erwecken. Ein absolutes Must-Have für Kunstliebhaber und Fans von Van Gogh.

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Being born in the modern age, we often forget how different things were before us. People could only know what someone looked like based on an artist's subjective vision or a grainy black-and-white photo. Despite the efforts of the artists, paintings can rarely achieve the level of realism that pictures can. And thus, people often wonder how some of the most famous historical figures really looked with all of the subjectiveness removed from the image. Bas Uterwijk, a photographer from Amsterdam who has a background in computer graphics, 3D animation, and special effects, slowly but surely tries to provide the answer to this aching question.

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