# art history

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April 2023

Opinion: Shouldn't protest art provoke exactly the response we've seen this week?

Art History and Cultural Policy Associate Professor, Dr Emily Mark-FitzGerald, looks at the controversy this week around a reworked famine-era eviction scene.

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Apr 5th 2023, 10:54 AM

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# high low art

The genius Tabloid Art History Twitter account compares paparazzi shots with priceless paintings

A whole new way to learn about art.

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Sep 11th 2017, 8:00 AM

# still life

13 memories you'll only have if you studied Leaving Cert Art

Leaving Cert FART, are we right lads?!

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Oct 9th 2016, 8:15 PM

# art history

Could Mona Lisa have been a feminist who wanted more women in the Church?

One amateur art historian believes he has the story behind that smile…

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Mar 15th 2014, 4:00 PM

# Secret Devil

Surprise! Hidden devil discovered by accident in famed Italian artwork

The smirking devil’s face as discovered completely by chance by an art historian attempting to date the Giotto piece in the Assisi basilica.

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Nov 8th 2011, 5:31 PM

# mona lisa

Human remains to be exhumed to recreate Mona Lisa smile

Controversial art historian says he believes he can reconstruct Da Vinci model’s face… as long as he can find her bones at all.

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Apr 5th 2011, 10:16 PM