The setting is the Louvre, Paris, 1911

I need a way from Location A to the Mona Lisa, by way of a staircase (either by using one or passing one)I have two characters stealing the Mona Lisa, and I need a route for them to walk. At the moment I start them in front of the Denon Wing, room 77, at Liberty leading the People, and I want to move them to ( Read more... )

EDIT: So far I've been searching "red rose varieties" (and other arrangements of those words), which led me to a site containing information on the oldest varieties of hybrid tea roses, but I'm not sure what to narrow it down to specifically to find "red and white roses a very wealthy person would have growing outside his mansion".  As for ( Read more... )

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I am at my wits' end, and a large part of my plot has just fallen apart. Help.

Basically, it's 1776, and my main character is visiting Paris. As he has quite an obsession with all manner of art (literature, theatre, painting, sculpture etc.) I thought he might visit an art gallery whilst he's there. Obviously, my first choice was the Louvre - great ( Read more... )

Setting: New York City, modern day.

Research done: googled variants on american modern art landscape painting [plus Rockies, Yosemite, etc]. Looked at Wikipedia, this site, this site, and some other art sites, but didn't find what I was after.

I'm writing a White Collar / Leverage crossover fic, and I've hit a stumbling block: my almost total ( Read more... )

I am trying to figure out how much a fashionable portrait painter might charge in 1912. The painter is either American or British (I'm still deciding, and may well make my choice depending on the results of this search). His clients come from both sides of the Atlantic. He's well-established and popular, filling a niche similar to that of John ( Read more... )

I'm writing a story about an oil painting forgery ring contemporary to Caravaggio and Rembrant.  For the purpose of my story, the hero has found a bundle of rolled up forgeries in an old shack in rural France ( Read more... )

My novel takes place in Chicago, and while I've done lots of hands-on research there, I'm missing two bits of information that the internet has been incredibly unhelpful with ( Read more... )

I'm looking for two things:

1. True, historical, or legendary stories of people being killed by art. I'm mostly being very literal here--paintings or sculptures falling on people and so on, poisoned paint--but if you know a story of a painting causing a riot or so on, or a famous painting being cursed, I'd like to hear that too ( Read more... )

Just a quick resource post for those who have any reason to need to investigate the art of historical periods or regions:

The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is a fantastic resource with thematic essays and detailed, zoomable photographs. You can find it here.

Hope this helps somebody!

ETA: For coding fail.