It makes me sad that Londons fabulous (and free) galleries have warehouses full of masterpieces that they have no space to display, yet my local museum has a gallery with not a single decent painting. I wish more of those great works could be shared around.
Something a little different. As someone who does a little woodworking, is that dovetailing on the LHS of that wooden draw/boxlike contraption at the bottom? Unfortunately, there's not quite enough resolution in the photo to tell.
Ugh. It looks like an early AI hallucination produced while trying to generate religious art in the style of the Iron Maiden's Dance of Death album cover (possibly the ugliest album cover ever).
Original headline: "London's National Gallery buys mysterious altarpiece for $20m"<p>The artist is <i>literally</i> unknown, not just "not yet famous", which is how I first read the HN headline. It's centuries old.