Arts
Short articles about arts, one idea in each.
- The Great Wave owes its blue to a pigment from BerlinHokusai's Great Wave is one of the best-known images from Japan. Its deep, lasting blue was a recent import from Europe, first made in Berlin more than a century earlier.
- The theft that made the Mona Lisa world-famousIn August 1911 the Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. For more than two years it stayed in the news, and visitors came to stare at the empty space on the wall.
- Michelangelo's David was carved from a block others gave up onThe marble for the David had been started, set aside and left lying for years before Michelangelo took it on at 26. It was meant for somewhere it never went.