22 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Art and Artworks | Amazing Facts 4U
- Amazingly the world-famous Louvre Museum and Art Gallery in Paris, France was built in 1190 and was used as a fortress.
- Linseed oil, the most popular of all oils for painting, comes from the flax seed a common fiber crop. The linen, a popular oil painting support, is made from the flax plant.
- A reliable way of detecting art forgeries is to test for cesium-137 and strontium-90 which can find out the age of the artwork.
- The largest art gallery is in St Petersburg Russia with amazing 322 galleries, 15 miles of corridor and 3 million works of art.
- In 1962 Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was valued at amazing $100 million. It is difficult to estimate it’s value now.
- In 1911, Monalisa was stolen from the Louvre museum. In the two years preceding the recovery of the painting, amazingly more than 6 reproductions were sold as being the original.
- The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eye lashes. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence Italy to shave them off!
- The Mona Lisa used to be hanged on the wall in Napoleon’s bedroom.
- Amazingly X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one.
- Leonardo da Vinci was a left hander and wrote all of his personal notes from right to left, forcing those who read them to use a mirror.
- The Renaissance masterpiece “The Pieta” is the only work that Michelangelo ever signed.
- Vincent Van Gogh produced more than 2000 works during his life time: 900 paintings and 1100 drawings and sketches.
- Amazing fact is that Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting , “Red Vineyard at Arles” during his whole life.
- Lighting on a painting needs to be dimmer at night and brighter during the day.
- Fluorescent lighting causes more fading of artwork than incandescent lighting.
- Amazingly Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could be removed and replaced by another.
- Amazingly ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women’s feet.
- On December 3rd, 1961, Henri Matisse’s painting “Le Bateau” was put right-side up after hanging upside-down amazingly for 46 days without anyone noticing at the Museum of Modern Art in New York before an art student noticed the error.
- English artist Andy Brown, created a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of Britain by stitching together 1,000 used tea bags.
- New Jersey has an amazing spoon museum that has over 5400 spoons from across the world.
- Micro-sculptor Willard Wigan creates amazing artwork so small that he once inhaled one by accident. He can create a complete artwork in the eye on a needle.
- The fact is that art has surpassed the stock market in appreciation over the past twenty years.
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