Nine Things We Learned About Famous Paintings After Your Textbook Was Printed
The background of Girl with a Pearl Earring is not black. It was a green curtain, and we have only known this since 2018. The inscription on Munch’s Scream is not vandalism — it is Munch’s own handwriting, confirmed in 2021. The woman in the Mona Lisa was identified beyond reasonable doubt in 2005, in…