Portal:Visual arts/Did you know/Archive/6

...that the National Art Museum of Ukraine's (pictured) collections were first exhibited outside the country after it reached independence in 1991?
...that Saturn Devouring His Son, by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, was painted directly onto the wall of his house and never intended for public exhibition?
...that Derek Gardner became a leading British painter of marine subjects after retiring from a civil engineering career due to deafness?
...that the archaeological cave of Juxtlahuaca contains Mesoamerica's earliest sophisticated painted art, as well as its only known example of non-Maya deep cave art?
...that the Evangelist portraits of early medieval Gospel Books used compositions taken