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Is the Mona Lisa in the Louvre the Real one [closed]
Is the Mona Lisa hanging in Paris/Louvre the real one? There are "other versions" and copies that are well known. It was stolen in 1911 after all, as well as vandalized a couple of times. There have ...
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Was Isaac Newton responsible for the loss of Robert Hooke's work?
This Yahoo answer citing this dead source (mirror) claims:
It may be a coincidence but the only known portrait of Hooke which had
been housed in the President's office, was mysteriously lost as ...
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Was the radical change in art in the 15th century assisted by technology?
The British artist David Hockney argues in his book Secret Knowledge that:
from the early 15th century many Western artists used optics--by which I mean mirrors and lenses (or a combination of the ...
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Is this hand-in-shirt gesture Masonic?
I've got casual acquaintances linking to things on Twitter about how this gesture of sticking your hand in your shirt in your formal portrait is actually Masonic.
Without worrying about how much the ...
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Were the pyramids at Puma Punku built by humans?
According to the TV show Ancient Aliens (clip here), humans could not have designed or built the pyramids at Puma Punku.
The specific claims in the video are that:
The blocks used in construction ...
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Was the golden ratio deliberately used for aesthetics in ancient or Renaissance times?
It's a famous claim that the golden ratio was both known to and deliberately used by artists and/or architects, for example in the Parthenon. I doubt this, and suspect that any observations about the ...
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