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The Louvre plans to evacuate its priceless treasures from Paris
21.09.2013 One of the most famous museums in the world, the Paris Louvre plans to evacuate some of its priceless exhibits in special storage facilities that will be built next to the new branch of the museum in the industrial city of Lance in northern France.
Getty Museum trying to take away a picture worth 2 million euros
20.09.2013 LOS ANGELES. The Getty Museum filed a lawsuit in the federal court of California to recognize the museum as the legal owner of the 14th century diptych, estimated at two million euros.
Face to face: Flanders, Florence and Renaissance painting
20.09.2013 LOS ANGELES. “Many people think that on January 1, 1400, the sun rose over Florence and the Renaissance began, but this is not the case at all,” says Catherine Hess, chief curator of Huntington Library’s European art
Romanian robbers hearings resume
11.09.2013 Suspects in the robbery of the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam last October ask for the transfer of the trial from Bucharest to the Netherlands.
Aragon insists on the return of medieval frescoes
28.08.2013 BARCELONA. The municipal authorities of Aragon, an autonomous region in northeastern Spain, formally sent a request to the government of neighboring Catalonia to return the Romanesque frescoes
The life and work of Van Gogh in 3D
26.07.2013 BUENOS AIRESOn the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the birth of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Buenos Aires presented to local residents and tourists an exhibition of more than 200 works by the Dutch artist, reproduced using interactive 3D technologies that literally transfer the viewer to the creative world of the master.
Fire in Paris destroyed 17th century murals
14.07.2013 The fire caused significant damage to one of the most famous buildings in Paris, the Lambert Hotel, located on the island of Saint-Louis.
One of the most famous paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites for sale
14.07.2013 One of the most famous paintings pre-Raphaelites can be called a picture of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), which depicts Janey Morris (Janey Morris).
Tate Modern Gallery Received Large Private Donation
07.07.2013 Tate Modern Gallery will receive a significant financial gift. Israeli multimillionaire Eyal Ofer donated £ 10 million to the museum.
California court rejects lawsuit against Sotheby’s
07.07.2013 A federal court in California rejected a lawsuit filed by collector Steven Brooks, who claimed that the painting he had bought at Sotheby’s in London in 2004 could not be put up for auction, as it had previously belonged to one of the leaders of the fascist movement to Hermann Goering.
El Greco set a record at Sotheby’s
07.07.2013 The work of the artist El Greco’s “Prayer of St. Dominic” set a new record for the works of the Spanish master.
The National Gallery attacked a picture of John Constable
03.07.2013 John Constable’s The Hay Wain was attacked the other day right in the hall of the National Gallery in London.
How Edward VIII borrowed paintings from the National Gallery
29.06.2013 King Edward VIII, at one time borrowed seven masterpieces from the National Gallery in London, including paintings by artists such as Canaletto and Jan van Os.
Amazon announces plans to open online art gallery
28.06.2013 Amazon.com is about to launch an online art gallery this year. The online store of books, electronics and clothes intends to offer its customers more than 1000 pieces of art in the collections of at least 125 galleries.
In the United States arrested a picture of Picasso
28.06.2013 WASHINGTON. The US Department of Justice, at the request of the Italian government, withdrew the work of Pablo Picasso, a preliminary estimate of the cost of which is 11.5 million US dollars.