Tag: Argues

  • Stonehenge’s Altar Stone Was Hauled 430 Miles From Northeast Scotland, New Study Argues

    Once thought to have originated in Wales, like the rest of the 4,500-year-old monument’s bluestones, Stonehenge’s altar stone has recently been traced through geological fingerprinting to Scotland. The question of how the megalith made the 435-mile journey from there to Salsbury Plain in England is now the focus of a study by scientists at Curtin read more

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  • Scholar Argues Portrait of Albrecht Dürer’s Father in National Gallery Is Authentic

    In a new catalogue raisonné, scholar Christof Metzger argues that The Painter’s Father (1497), a painting in the collection of London’s National Gallery, is in fact an authentic work by Albrecht Dürer. The Painter’s Father, gifted to King Charles I of England in 1636, has long been thought to be a copy made decades after read more

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