Ars Longa Blog

September 28, 2021

Ars Longa is a blog series exploring photographic documentation of lost, altered, and destroyed works of art—unique and invaluable resources in the Photoarchive, the founding collection of the Frick Art Reference Library.

Collage of Rubens's "Venus at the Forge of Vulcan" and "An Old Woman with a Brazier"

Ars Longa: Photoarchive Retraces History of Separated Rubens Paintings

Detail of a sketch of a saint beneath the Virgin Mary on a pedestal holding the infant Jesus

Ars Longa: The Turbulent Fate of Raphael's Baronci Altarpiece

Marble statue of King Louis XII of France in military garb with his right hand raised

Ars Longa: Capturing a Revolutionary Restoration

Religious wall fresco with chunks and sections of plaster missing from damage

Ars Longa: Documenting a Trove of Frescoes Nearly Lost to War

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