The Art Assignment takes us on a tour of master paintings left unfinished, for one reason or another. Elizabeth Shoumatoff's watercolor of President Roosevelt is a morbid classic of the genre: he suffered the cerebral hemorrage that killed him while sitting for the portrait, murmuring "I have a terrific pain in the back of my head" after slumping all but dead before her.
Unfinished master paintings
Six of the tsars' jeweled Fabergé eggs have never been found
Between 1885 and 1917, the House of Fabergé built 50 jeweled Easter eggs for the Russian tsars — lavish confections of gold, enamel, and gems, each hiding a tiny surprise… READ THE REST
The real Backrooms wallpaper texture
The sprawling lore of the Backrooms, now a blockbuster film, flows from a single photo of an unsettlingly dingy office space. The pic captured the imagination of image-board users in… READ THE REST
Florence hospital staff are used to tourists collapsing from beauty
Staff at Florence's Santa Maria Nuova hospital are accustomed to tourists arriving with dizzy spells and disorientation after viewing Michelangelo's David or the Botticellis in the Uffizi. The condition has… READ THE REST
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Copilot, BitLocker, and Hyper-V for under $10? Meet this Windows 11 Pro deal
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Skip the subscription with Microsoft Office 2019 for $20
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