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Long-form stories about museums, artists, and the works that outlived their worlds.
Article · 20 min readMuseo del Prado: The Paintings That Outlived Their WorldsA beheaded king's collection goes to his creditors. A palace room is taken apart. Murals are cut off the walls of a deaf man's house. Eight paintings in the Prado, and what each of them outlived.
Article · 41 min readThe Uffizi: The Museum That Outlived the MediciIn 1737 the last of the Medici signed her family's art away on one condition: none of it could leave Florence. The museum that grew out of that clause, told through the works the family gathered and the disasters the collection outlived.