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13.03.2013 In London, discovered a new painting belonging to the brush of Anthony Van Dyck (Anthony Van Dyck). For many years, it was stored in the storerooms of one of the English museums as a later (XIX century) copy from a picture of the great Flemish artist.
01.03.2013 The most famous images on the Berlin Wall, such as the famous kiss of Leonid Brezhnev and Eric Honecker, may be in danger of destruction.
23.02.2013 A private collection of 57 paintings of Italian Baroque, owned by the family of Denis Mahon (Denis Mahon) transferred according to his will to six museums and galleries in the UK.
20.02.2013 The other day, Pope Benedict XVI struck the world with his announcement of his resignation. However, experts note that in history he will remain as a religious leader who has done a lot to renew relations between the Catholic Church and the art world, considering Beauty as one of the paths to spiritual growth.
20.02.2013 In the L’Hospitalet area, near Barcelona, a group of artists specializing in graffiti was invited to decorate the ceiling dome over the main altar of the local church.
20.02.2013 France promised to return seven paintings seized from their Jewish owners during World War II as part of an action to return the looted art objects that are now in the collection of the Louvre and other museums.
16.02.2013 Sotheby’s auction house is currently suing for damages arising from the underestimation of work sold at auction in London in 2006.
14.02.2013 A self-portrait of the triptych of Anglo-Irish artist Francis Bacon was sold for 13.7 million pounds (21.5 million US dollars, 15.9 million euros) at Sotheby’s contemporary art auction in London on Tuesday.
10.02.2013 CARACAS. The painting “Odalisque in Red Bloomers” by the French artist Henri Matisse, stolen in 2002 in Caracas and discovered in Miami in the middle of last year, will return to Venezuela after the relevant court decision is made.
04.02.2013 NEW YORK. At Christie’s auction of Renaissance art objects, the painting "Madonna and Child with Young Saint John the Baptist" (1493-1495) by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) was sold by a record for the artist price of 10.4 million US dollars.
03.02.2013 BRUSSELS. The painting “The Triumph of Judas Maccabee” (Triomphe de Judas macchabée) of the Flemish baroque genius Peter Paul Rubens (Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640) again became the center of cultural relations between France and Belgium.
01.02.2013 NAPLES. More and more cultural heritage sites in Naples are in poor condition. Only closed and abandoned churches, there are more than two hundred.
28.01.2013 In the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester, researchers have discovered a real treasure, consisting of the works of the poet and artist William Blake (William Blake).
24.01.2013 ROTTERDAM. Romanian police arrested three people suspected of participating in a robbery of the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam last year.
20.01.2013 TOKYO. The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum presents an ambitious show of more than fifty works by the Greek artist Domenicos Theotocopoulos (El Greco, 1541-1614), in an attempt to reveal his most universal personal qualities.