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Monet’s painting "Water Lilies: A Reflection of Willow" Returned to Japan
02.03.2018 PARIS. Presumably, the sketch of Claude Monet’s Water Lilies painting, once owned by a Japanese collector but considered lost for decades after World War II, was found and identified in the Louvre.
Entrance to the Pantheon in Rome will be paid
27.02.2018 ROME. Visitors to the Pantheon, one of the best-preserved ancient monuments, will have to purchase an entry ticket starting in May 2018 if they are not going to pray there, the Italian Ministry of Culture and Tourism said.
A picture of Degas stolen in 2009, found in a bus near Paris
26.02.2018 PARIS. A little over eight years ago, French investigators were shocked by the circumstances of how a small painting by the impressionist Edgar Degas was stolen from a museum in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille. The picture depicts the choristers from the final act of the opera Don Giovanni.
The Return of Tutu
09.02.2018 A portrait of a Nigerian princess, lost over 40 years ago, was found in a London apartment and will be sold at auction. Bidding will be broadcast live, which will allow Nigerian art lovers in Lagos to place bets directly from the West African metropolis.
"Annabelle" Picasso - renaming the picture
01.02.2018 Richard Kering, the owner of the picture, decided to rename “Girl with a Red Beret and Pompom”. Many experts in the field of art consider his act arrogant and discuss the legitimacy of this move.
The Metro decided to leave the picture of Balthus in the main exhibition
20.12.2017 NEW YORK. The Metropolitan Museum of Art decided to reject the requirements of an online petition calling for the removal from the museum of the erotic work of the Polish-French artist Balthus.
The painting, considered fake, attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder
19.12.2017 LONDON. For more than 100 years, art historians have called the painting bought by Queen Victoria as a Christmas present to Prince Albert a 19th-century fake. But a new generation of art historians discovered that they were wrong.
"Enchanted Pose" - the last fragment of a painting by Magritte found in Brussels
15.11.2017 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The missing last part of the picture of the Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte was found under another work of the artist in a museum in Brussels using X-ray research.
Borghese Gallery will create a new online database of Caravaggio
22.09.2017 The Borghese Gallery received funding from the Fendi fashion house in the amount of 1.3 million eurosThe grant will help create a digital database that will describe in detail all aspects of the life and work of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, who mastered the technique of contrasting light and shadow and whose popularity has grown significantly over the past century.
How photography becomes the new leader in art investments
21.09.2017 LONDON. Wealthy investors are buying fewer paintings while photo prices are rising.
A museum dedicated to street art opens in Berlin
21.09.2017 BERLIN. On Saturday, a museum of graffiti and street art for public places will open in Berlin, and projects by local and international street artists will be exhibited on the facade of its building.
"Van Gogh. With love, Vincent" - a film painted in oil on canvas
10.08.2017 A great biographical film (actually a cartoon) is ready for rental, telling about the mysterious death of Vincent van Gogh.
Museum curator Mascarel identified the painting by Paul Cezanne
15.07.2017 WILLIAMSBURG. Analysis and testing of The Miracle of a Slave confirmed the assumption that it was written by Paul Cezanne as a copy of the original work about 300 years ago.
Two for the price of one: an X-ray revealed the lost treasure of Frederick Basil
22.05.2017 While visitors to the National Gallery of Art in Washington are enjoying a new exhibition dedicated to the magnificent landscapes and chamber portraits of the Impressionists, Ann Gallery Hoenigswald, gallery restorer, explores the canvases in search of traces that could indicate the presence of hidden compositions under existing works .
Michelangelo’s portrait exhibited at the National Gallery of London may be fake
27.04.2017 We previously wrote about an unusual exhibition at the National Gallery of London (National Gallery), designed to highlight the creative partnership of the great Michelangelo (Michelangelo) and his student, Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano del Piombo)The exposition caused a lot of controversy, and recently there was also a scandal.