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The article focuses on celebrities encounters with the supernatural and their experiences with ghosts and paranormal events. Topics include Martin Kemp's eerie encounter at Hampton Court House, Jo Brand's ouija board experience, and various spooky encounters shared by different celebrities, both frightening and intriguing.

The article focuses on the emergence of an almost photographic realism, or ars nova, in paintings after 1425 at the dawn of the Renaissance. Contemporary artist David Hockney came up with a controversial theory, claiming that Renaissance paintings look realistic because artists used lenses and mirrors to project images onto canvases or similar surfaces and then trace and paint over the results. As part of an examination of this theory, other scholars and the author have used optical and computer-vision techniques to evaluate two of van Eyck's paintings that Hockney and his collaborator Charles Falco, a physicist at the University of Arizona, adduce as evidence. For a number of historical and technical reasons, Hockney envisions a camera obscura based not on a lens but on a concave mirror. Van Eyck's Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife (1434) is a key exhibit in Hockney's theory. To find the focal length of van Eyck's mirror, the author used a computer method developed by Antonio Criminisi of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England, Martin Kemp of the University of Oxford and Sing-Bing Kang of Microsoft Research in Redmond, Wash. He was thereby able to adjust the radius of curvature of the mirror to "unwarp" the painted image. The depicted mirror, turned around, could not have been used as a projection mirror for the full painting. In fact, manufacturing a mirror from a blown-glass sphere that could have been used would have been beyond the capabilities of Renaissance technology. Other evidence throws doubts on the suggestion that van Eyck painted the Arnolfini portrait under a projection onto the oak panel. A projected image obeys the laws of perspective, but the perspective lines of the floor, window casement and other features in the painting do not meet at a vanishing point as they should. The perspective is consistently inconsistent. INSET: Overview/Analyzing van Eyck.

An interview with new wave band Spandau Ballet members Tony Hadley, Gary Kemp, John Keeble, Martin Kemp, and Steve Norman is presented. Hadley agrees with fashion designer Vivienne Westwood's statement that people dress boring nowadays. Keeble shares that although they drank and did drugs in the 1980s they always made sure they could still perform as a band. They also mention the most outrageous outfit they wore for the band.

The article focuses on the continuing study of experts to determine whether the painting known as "La Bella Principessa" was a work by Leonardo da Vinci. Officialy mentioned at the 1998 Auction at Christie's, the painting was referred to Renaissance scholars and vellum was dated between 1449 and 1656 in the carbon-14 dating of the University of Zurich Insitutue of Particle Physics. It also notes scanning of the painting by optical engineer Pascal Cotte with his 13-band multispectral camera and the actual examination of the painting by Martin Kemp.

The article examines the process and history of identifying paintings and highlights Leonardo da Vinci scholar Martin Kemp who authenticates works of art. Kemp's discovery of an unknown drawing by da Vinci later titled "La Bella Principessa" or "The Beautiful Princess," forgeries, and deciphering the fingerprints of artists are explored. Forensic art expert Peter Paul Biro is discussed as are artist J.M.W. Turner and public perception of art.

The article focuses on the debates of several art scholars in Europe and the U.S. whether the painting La Bella Principessa is a genuine Leonardo Da Vinci's work. It states that a fingerprint has intensified the argument on the origin of such mysterious drawing sold at 21,850 dollars at an auction. It cites that Professor emeritus of art history Martin Kemp at Oxford University has no doubts at all that Da Vinci has painted La Bella Pricipessa.

The article discusses an altar panel on a Baptisery in Florence, Italy which features artwork that has been attributed to 15th century Italian artist Andrea del Verrocchio. The author explains how two of the figures on the panel may be by Verrocchio's student Leonardo da Vinci. The author describes the figures in question and cites Leonardo scholar Martin Kemp. The author talks about the number of lost works of Leonardo that people have claimed to have discovered. The article also provides some biographical information on Leonardo.

Information on the topics discussed at the 2007 Tessin Lecture held at the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and hosted by Professor Martin Kemp regarding Italian drawings is presented. It says that Kemp cited artist Francesco di Simone Ferrucci's study of Alessandro Tartagni's tomb in San Domenico as a paradigm of a contract drawing. The lecture featured various 15th and early 16th century drawings, including "Virgin and Child attended by Saints," "Adoration of the Kings," and "Valley with a River."

The article focuses on professor Martin Kemp's insights about artist Leonard da Vinci. Kemp found that da Vinci behaves like a typical Renaissance painter. He believes that the very incompleteness of da Vinci's lifework is part of its attraction. He also found that some of his work has been as innovative as da Vinci's own.

An interview with art historian Martin Kemp is presented. He discusses his involvement in both art and science and what he feels has changed over the last 40 years, such as the popularity of science books. He shares why he thinks the public like such collaborations, such as the ability of collaborations to reunite radically severed disciplines, and how art and science became severed.

The article focuses on San Francisco real estate investor Luke Brugnara and "Christ Carrying the Cross," the dramatic painting he bought in February for $500,000 in a private sale. He's made his mind up that Leonardo da Vinci had a hand in its creation. Doubtless Leonardo created more than three paintings before his death in 1519. But he didn't sign his work, and nothing like the scrupulous records that exist for his drawings and sketches is available for his paintings. Result: a Leonardo-or-no industry, run by scholars. These experts have attributed to Leonardo such paintings as the "Madonna of the Carnation," the "Madonna with a Pomegranate," even a second "Virgin of the Rocks." Some still consider these to be the work of his teacher, Andrea del Verrocchio, or his fellow pupils, Lorenzo di Credi and Ambroglio de' Predis. All told, there are 15 to 20 of these "new" Leonardo paintings. Their number may soon dwindle: Art historian Martin Kemp of the University of Oxford has been granted $2.5 million to check fingerprints on many alleged Leonardo paintings. (Leonardo achieved his signature sfumato effect, a subtle gradation of colors, using his fingers to spread the oil paints.)

Profiles brothers Martin, 29, and Gary Kemp, 31, and tells how they came to play Ronald and Reginald Kray in Britain's current film, `The Krays.'

The article discusses the controversy surrounding a previously unknown painting attributed to the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. While some scholars, most notably the art historian Carlo Pedretti, have confirmed the attribution, others, including Carmen Bambach and Martin Kemp, have ruled out the possibility of Leonardo's authorship. The painting shows a portrait of the noblewoman Isabella d'Este which resembles drawings of Isabella created by Leonardo between 1499 and 1500.

The article focuses on email received by Martin Kemp, professor at Art History at the University of Oxford, from Nicholas Penny, Director of the National Gallery, and mentions painting of picture depicting Jesus in Renaissance dress. Topics discussed include focus of the scholarly dispute between art historians, exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the court of Milan held in London, England in 2011 and work displayed that are for sale at National Gallery.

The article discusses the discovery of a painting by Leonardo da Vinci called "La Bella Principessa," focusing on the multi-spectral camera technology that confirmed its authenticity, developed by the Paris, France-based technology company Lumière Technology. The author comments on the owner Peter Silverman's attempts to show the piece, settling on an exhibition "And There Was Light," at the dockside factory called the Erkisbergshallen in Sweden, and art historian Martin Kemp's re-attribution.

Former EastEnders star Martin Kemp is appearing in a TV ad campaign for Abbey National showing how people's fantasies can be brought to life. Kemp will be shown in various […]

Reviews the motion picture "The Krays," directed by Peter Medak, starring Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp and Billie Whitelaw.