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The Booker Prize winner talks about Old Masters' pictures that 'look at you' and AI in art as he takes writing inspiration from the Prado It is the eyes peering from the canvases that get him, their ...

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"I don't like coming here after hours, it's too eerie. The pictures, they look at you," Banville said turning away from the ...

For Irish novelist John Banville, the captivating eyes in the paintings at Spain's Prado Museum offer an intense connection ...