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Colonial Williamsburg, William & Mary identify structure of 18th-century school
Crystal Castleberry, an intern on the 2013 dig, displays an 18th-century coin bearing the visage of George III. The field schools turned up numerous features and artifacts that ranged from before the founding of Williamsburg to a Brown Hall door key.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA
.- A small, white building tucked away on the William & Mary campus once housed the Williamsburg Bray School, an 18th-century institution dedicated to the education of enslaved and free Black children, researchers have determined. Now, the university and Colonial Williamsburg are working together to ensure current and future generations learn about the complex history of what is likely the oldest extant building in the United States dedicated to the education of Black children and the stories of those who were part of it.
The First Art Newspaper on the Net
by Jean-Louis De La Vaissiere
PARIS
(AFP)
.- A French journalist s investigation into the alleged forgery network around art collector Giuliano Ruffini has also criticised the great negligence of art world experts. The doubts first became public when French police seized a painting owned by the prince of Liechtenstein from an exhibition in Aix-en-Provence in 2016. The prince had paid seven million euros at auction for the portrait of the goddess Venus by 16th century Italian painter Lucas Cranach, yet tests would soon reveal that the pigments used in the painting dated from the 20th century. Ruffini was well-known in the art world. Since the 1990s, he had sold dozens even hundreds of paintings by such luminaries as Parmigianino and El Greco to some of the great museums of Europe, including the Louvre, often through intermediaries. Many, he said, had come from the collection of an ex-girlfriend s father, Andre Borie, a civil engineer
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