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Stolen Matisse will return to Venezuela
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.
The works of Botticelli and Fra Bartolomeo sold at Christie’s for record prices
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.
Belgium asks France to return the picture of Rubens "The Triumph of Judah Maccabee"
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.
Naples historic center is gradually collapsing
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.
Hundreds of William Blake etchings found in the library of the University of Manchester
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).
Suspects of theft at Kunsthal Museum arrested in Romania
24.01.2013 ROTTERDAM. Romanian police arrested three people suspected of participating in a robbery of the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam last year.
An exhibition of El Greco paintings opens in Tokyo
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.
Frescoes by Picasso in Norway under threat of destruction
19.01.2013 The Norwegian Directorate of Cultural Heritage fears that the first monumental murals on concrete, made by Pablo Picasso from the late 1950s to the early 1970s on the walls of two government buildings in Oslo, may be destroyed.
German experts confirmed that the painting found belongs to Klimt
17.01.2013 BERLIN. A group of experts from the University of Hanover (Northern Germany), believes that the authorship of the painting "Der trompetende Putto" belongs to the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918).
Another Mozart Portrait Discovered
16.01.2013 VEIN. In a young man with a thick round face, depicted in a tiny eighteenth-century painting, experts recognized the great composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The National Gallery in London found another work by Titian
15.01.2013 LONDON. The portrait of the Venetian doctor Girolamo Fracastoro (Girolamo Fracastoro; 1478-1553), which has been kept in the National Gallery since 1924, belongs to the brush of Titian (Tiziano Vecellio, 1480 / 1485-1576).
18th Century Frescoes Restored at Old Royal Naval College
09.01.2013 LONDON. In the famous Painted Hall of the Old Royal Naval College, restoration work began on frescoes by Sir James Thornhill in the Baroque style on the western wall of the hall.
Matisse’s painting stolen 25 years ago is returned
09.01.2013 The stolen painting by Henri Matisse, valued at $ 1 million (620,000 pounds), was discovered by art critics in London.
Oslo seeks ways to accommodate Edward Munch’s legacy
05.01.2013 In 2013, the 150th anniversary of the expressionist master, the author of such familiar and iconic paintings as Scream, will be celebrated.
At the exhibition of works by Andy Warhol in China there will be no portraits of Mao
30.12.2012 At the request of the Chinese Ministry of Culture, ten works depicting former Communist Party leader Mao Zedong (1893-1976) will be expelled from the Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal exhibition