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Features the art exhibition, 'The Spanish Portrait: From El Greco to Picasso,' at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, through February 6, 2005. Range of paintings featured in the exhibit; Artist credits; Implications on art.

The article reviews the exhibitions "Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture" "Betye Saar: Keepin it Clean", and "Nari Ward: We the People" being held in New York City.

The article offers arts news briefs as of August 14, 2015 such as art work of the 19th century artist Fitz Henry Lane titled "Portrait of the Bark Mary" and the exhibition of mastodon items in Massachusetts.

This article is discusses the art exhibition "Cézanne in Provence," at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. The show consists of portraits and still lifes but much of it is given over to the landscapes of Provence, a department in the south of France. Cézzane's role as a revolutionary role as a forerunner of the Modernist movement in art is discussed.

The article reports on Americans' changing preferences regarding portraiture. Americans' interest in commissioned portraiture - oil, charcoal and pastel - has marched on unabated since the 1980's, when a new culture of wealth and traditionalism and a renewed interest in figurative painting brought it back into vouge. But a new style of casual portraiture has emerged, which often features children and teenagers with soccer balls, bass guitars, Converse basketball shoes or fishing rods.

Focuses on the restoration of Rembrandt's "Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet." Description of the painting, which features what appears to be a servant woman; Question of how a 17th century servant would have a portrait painted; Review of how the painting has undergone a meticulous restoration; Review of how the work was discovered to be a Rembrandt after initial speculation.

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We know so little about Shakespeare that we don't even know for sure what he looked like. Scholars have been quarreling over various purported portraits of him for years. The latest, the so-called Cobbe portrait, was unveiled last week by the Shakespeare expert Stanley Wells, who claimed that it was the only authentic likeness to have been painted in Shakespeare's lifetime, igniting yet another fuss among the dissenters. This much is certain: the portrait is painted on wood from the late 16th century, so the date is right; it shows a man in Elizabethan dress, and originally belonged to the family of Henry Wriothesley, Shakespeare's patron. The man in the painting, whoever he is, happens to be extremely handsome, glamorous even, and you have to look hard to see any resemblance to what has been considered until now at least the semiofficial likeness of Shakespeare -- the woodcut engraving by the Flemish artist Martin Droeshout that appeared in the front of the first folio edition of Shakespeare's works, published seven years after his death. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 19th-century German School portrait that sold for $21,850 at a Christie's auction in 1998 has now been attributed to Leonardo da Vinci by some art and scientific experts. A spokesman for the mixed-media portrait's Swiss owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, said offers to buy it have already started pouring in. He said the top bid so far was more than $50 million, by an intermediary acting on behalf of a Russian. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article evaluates various pieces of art, including pet portraits by Constance Coleman, photography by Eneas Capalbo, and oil paintings by Francesco Clemente. Pricing and contact information is also provided.

Features events related to art in the U.S. Schedule of the Northeast Auctions Sale, where early American folk art portraits will go on sale in Manchester, New Hampshire; Plan of the Peconic Land Trust to organize its Through Farms and Fields Tour in Water Mill, Long Island, New York to raise money.

Reports on Las Vegas, Nevada-based casino owner Stephen A. Wynn's purchase of the "Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife."

Presents issues related to art as of April 6, 2004. Details of the contract for the television series "Simpsons"; Recovery of a portrait of author Virginia Woolf; Presentation of the Grand Jury Award to the documentary film "The Control Room," during the annual Full Frame Documentary Festival.

Explores the antique collection of Halsted Billings Vander Poel. Theme of Vander Poel's collections; Biographical profile of Vander Poel; Physical description of Vander Poel's collections.

Reports on the announcement of the birth of an artistic movement, the Web Cubists. Creation of a site by Ruder Finn, a public relations firm in Manhattan, N. Y.; Offers of the web site to aspiring portraitists; Presentation of the portrait in the gallery's virtual walls.