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Sistine Chapel will be able to receive more visitors
03.07.2014 The Vatican Museums hope that the new climate control system, which will be installed this fall, will almost triple the number of visitors to the Sistine Chapel who want to enjoy Renaissance frescoes. In this case, the system will be practically invisible to visitors.
Portrait of Isabella de Medici discovered
01.07.2014 PITTSBURG. The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh nearly destroyed a 16th-century Florentine portrait. The picture, recognized as a modern fake, was only sent at the last minute for additional examination.
Mauritshuis ready to open after reconstruction
25.06.2014 The complete restoration and repair of the famous Mauritshuis in The Hague was finally completed, and all the treasures of the museum took their places. The museum opens later this week after a 2-year renovation.
Experts Confirm Authenticity of Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait
14.06.2014 LONDON. After much research and analysis, British experts finally confirmed the authenticity of the self-portrait of Rembrandt, donated in 2010 to the National Trust of Great Britain (National Trust).
Director of the National Gallery of London retires
13.06.2014 On the eve of his 65th birthday, Nicholas Penny leaves the post of director of the National Gallery, after six years of work. The exact date of retirement will depend on the timing of the appointment of a successor.
The famous Rembrandt collection, owned by the Morgan Museum, is fully digitized
25.05.2014 NEW YORK. A large collection of etchings by Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn (1606-1669), owned by the Library and the Morgan Museum (The Morgan Library & Museum) and considered the best in North America, is fully digitized and already available on the Internet.
Oil painting bought at a Spanish antique shop for $ 200, recognized as an early work of Salvador Dali
25.05.2014 MADRID. On Thursday, art experts officially announced that a painting painted in oil and purchased at an antique store in Spain more than two decades ago for 150 euros ($ 200) was recognized as one of the first surrealist works that Salvador Dali created in his teens.
$ 33 Million Defendants Defined in Case of Selling Fake Artworks
01.05.2014 NEW YORK. This week in New York, three men were charged with a $ 33 million scam. For more than two decades, the defendants have faked and sold artworks allegedly owned by world-famous artists through an art gallery.
Soon, a mysterious female portrait of Gustav Klimt will be exhibited for the first time in Vienna.
26.04.2014 VEIN. The almost unknown portrait of Gustav Klimt, which was once considered one of the artist’s earliest works, was re-dated after restoration work.
More than 100 of the best works from the collection of the Albertina Museum in a new grand exhibition
22.04.2014 VEIN. A grand exhibition in the heart of historical Vienna - the Albertina Museum, presents to the public all the most valuable treasures of the gallery.
£ 30,000 for Titian’s sketch worth millions
05.04.2014 EDINBURGH. The National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh has opened the exhibition Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Art, which presents for the first time a new drawing by the great master.
Search for stolen masterpiece by Gustav Klimt resumed after 17 years
30.03.2014 The Italian police reopened the case of a painting stolen 17 years ago by Gustav Klimt. The canvas was stolen from a gallery in the city of Piacenza, located in northern Italy.
Ancient mural broken out of a wall in Pompeii
30.03.2014 POMPEII. In early March, thieves stole an ancient fresco depicting the goddess Artemis, breaking it out of the wall of the House of Neptune and Amphitrite in the UNESCO-protected part of Pompeii, which is closed to visitors.
Art critic Bendor Grosvenor found a real portrait of Prince Charles
18.03.2014 EDINBURGH. Once, Bendor Grosvenor broke the hearts of thousands of Scots and the entire national souvenir industry by announcing that the portrait, which was considered to be the only image of handsome Prince Charlie that came to us, actually depicts his younger brother Henry.
Can you believe the expertise in the modern art market?
12.03.2014 A fake painting by Marc Chagall, owned by a businessman from Leeds and bought for £ 100,000 in 1992, was publicly burned last month, and the Istanbul Art Gallery closed an entire exhibition of Juan Miro in 2013 after a comment by one of the experts that some works at the exhibition are fakes.