Portal:Visual arts/Did you know/Archive/6

4 March 2007

 * ...that the National Art Museum of Ukraine's (pictured) collections were first exhibited outside the country after it reached independence in 1991?
 * ...that Saturn Devouring His Son, by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, was painted directly onto the wall of his house and never intended for public exhibition?
 * ...that Derek Gardner became a leading British painter of marine subjects after retiring from a civil engineering career due to deafness?
 * ...that the archaeological cave of Juxtlahuaca contains Mesoamerica's earliest sophisticated painted art, as well as its only known example of non-Maya deep cave art?
 * ...that the Evangelist portraits of early medieval Gospel Books used compositions taken