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They don’t make scholars like Dr B N Goswami anymore. Padma Bhushan Brijinder Nath, popularly known as Dr B N Goswami was born in Sargodha, now in Pakistan, on 15 Aug 1933. Son of a judge, he would never have thought of becoming an art historian. Goswami left his career as an IAS, of Bihar […]
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Introduction The interplay between an artist’s creative vision and the sitters’ personal preferences is a dynamic that has long fascinated art enthusiasts and scholars. In the catalogue’s preface to the exhibition “Fashioned by Sargent,” Erica E. Hirshler and James Finch delve into this intriguing dynamic. The exhibition, organized in collaboration between Tate Britain and the
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March 18, On This Day Unsolved to this day! It remains till date the biggest art heist in US history. Early in the morning of March 18, 1990, two thieves disguised as police officers robbed the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston of 13 artworks worth some $500 million. These included some of the most valuable paintings