• The Art History Carnival has returned to The Earthly Paradise, featuring art history posts from a spectrum of bloggers. 
• Art historian Martin Kemp discusses why he believes Salvator Mundi is the real deal Leonardo painting. 
• Nine Leonardo da Vinci paintings in one art exhibition? Run, don't walk, to this blockbuster! 
• Scientists examined the cave paintings in Pech-Merle, known for portrayal of spotted horses.  Using DNA evidence, scientists concluded that the spotted horses co-existed with the artists. 
• It's no longer night in Night Watch, the best known of all Rembrandt paintings, after the Rijksmusuem altered the lighting on it. Read more by clicking the link.

Rembrandt.  Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (Night Watch), 1642.  Oli on canvas, approx. 12' by 14'.  Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

• Michelangelo painting, La Pieta with Two Angels, has been restored and is on display in a Rome Renaissance art show as art historians debate it! 

• One of the best known Goya paintings, Don Ramon Satue, has a secret - a recently discovered underpainting.
• In conjunction with its Rembrandt show, the Philadelphia Museum of Art created a nifty video explaining Rembrandt's dry point and etching techniques. 
• Two art history classes experimented with Masterpiece Cards for the AP Art History exam.  Now we have data showing that the Cards improve performance! 
• Attribution of a new Leonardo painting has the art world abuzz.  Three Pipe Problem summarizes its provence and iconographic details. 
• Art from Intuition by Dean Nimmer is a brilliant approach to finding and maintaining creativity. 
• Michelangelo paintings always garner news... but controversy surrounding alleged attribution gets downright vehement.  Readers weigh in in More Michelangelo paintings?
• Italian researchers are investigating Stendhal's Syndrome, an alleged phenomenon in which people experience increased respiration and heart rate when viewing famous artwork.  I'm a believer!

The Famous Paintings ebook lists 250 of the most famous paintings in the world, according to art history writers.  With this ebook, you can

• locate the art museums which house these works of art
• create an itinerary of famous artwork in nearly 100 art museums
• learn facts about art paintings from over 200 famous painters.

Off to Paris? We've compiled an ebook of Famous Paintings in the Louvre, too -- explore some of the greatest hits in art history there, and some lesser known art paintings, too. 

Visiting New York? The famous art at the Metropolitan must be on your list! Get the Famous Paintings in the Met ebook for a beginning itinerary of some of its best paintings. 

• The famed Barnes Foundation closed at the end of June, but the New York Times offers memorable video views of one of the quirkiest art museums
• Call it art or call it yarn bombing -- but check out this trend of covering everything (including the Wall Street bull) with yarn!
• More on Google Art Project: its founder, Amit Sood, gives a TED talk about how the Project is designed to supplement visiting art museums (6 mins.)

First Silvano Vinceti dug up alleged Caravaggio bones, and now he's on to the Mona Lisa, long believed to be Lisa Gherardini. He'll use DNA testing and if skull fragments are available, attempt to rebuild her face.  Read more about unearthing Mona Lisa!

A new Andy Warhol statue in New York City is generating controversy.  How perfect is that?

What could be more enticing than unearthing a Velazquez painting from the storage room? Read about this promising discovery.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has an expanded image library of 2,000 objects, all free of charge and in the public domain.  

Top picks for art history videos on YouTube!

Watch Women in Art.  This video of famous females in Western art history is award-winning -- and it's no wonder! Stumped on who these leading ladies in art history are? Here are the answers to Women in Art, frame by frame.  

Check out Google Art Project to explore famous art. Get Street View virtual tours of 17 art museums, digitization of nearly 1000 of the best paintings in these museums, biographies of famous painters, and a sense of awe.

Live reenactment of art history masterpieces, or rock music meets art history. Who could ever say art historians are a stuffy lot?

Read how to write a strong art history paper. Great for perfecting art essays.