The face is the most defined part of this self portrait of the artist. He wears a grey smock-like coat over a white shirt and dark tie underneath. There are many strokes of subtle color in his face ...
In 1914, the Austrian actress Tilla Durieux was driven from Berlin to Paris some 15 times to sit for a portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
In the online sales, the top lot was an Apple Lisa 1 Microcomputer, which achieved an impressive $882,000, 44 times its low estimate, which was sold in Firsts: The History of Computing.
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The world hails Albert Einstein, the iconic theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, as one the most brilliant minds that ever lived on earth. Many scientists and researchers have ...
It all began in 1995 with Zip2, an online city guide company that provided software to newspapers. From there, Elon Musk launched the creation of X.com, an online payment platform, followed by ...
Several years ago, Brandon Silverman become obsessed with the lettering and typography on the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was one of the greatest scientists the world has ever produced. He conceived of totally new ways of understanding time and space, matter and light, gravitation and the ...
But some of the most notable texts are directly tied to the professional—and personal—lives of Albert Einstein. “The Einstein Love Letters” compose roughly half of all known direct source ...
To mark Charles III’s coronation in 2023, the U.K. government commissioned a portrait of the King and offered it for free (frame included) to all public institutions to display. The response has ...
15.2 x 6.7 cm. (6 x 2.6 in.) ...