London's Courtauld Institute has discovered unknown figures beneath the surface of a famous Pablo Picasso painting from the artist's Blue Period.

The margins of 13 th century psalters were decorated with figures both mythical and biblical ... And with the material means of art, the artist is able to create a dialectic between interior ...

In revealing this previously hidden figure we can shed light on a pivotal moment in Picasso’s career.” The analysed painting shows Picasso’s sculptor friend Mateu Fernández de Soto sitting ...

it is their capacity to invite the viewer to move from looking at the Black figure – which is how Black figures have historically been depicted in Western art – to looking with or through the eyes of ...