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20.12.2012 One of the scariest scenes in the history of art, until recently, without a doubt, was the drama that took place on July 27, 1890, when Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the chest while walking in the very place that is depicted in his newly painted painting " Wheat Field with Ravens ”(July 1890).
13.12.2012 From beeswax and birch bark to trophies and gas pipelines, the exhibition in Berlin shows a long, colorful and sometimes tragic history of relations between Germany and Russia, the two most populous countries in Europe.
07.12.2012 Rafael’s Head Of A Young Apostle (1483-1520) was sold for a record $ 47.8 million at yesterday’s auction at the Old Masters at Sotheby’s in London.
06.12.2012 “A sewing machine with an umbrella in a surreal landscape” (Máquina de coser con paraguas en un paisaje surrealista) - a small picture painted Salvador Dali in 1941, during a visit to the United States for director Fritz Lang, it was sold yesterday at an auction in Paris for two million euros (2.6 million dollars), the organizers said.
04.12.2012 As the police managed to establish, in the Paris gallery of Robert Schmit (Schmit), during the theft of Delacroix’s watercolors from it, the alarm did not work.
04.12.2012 Representatives of the Dulwich art gallery announced that they had found in their collection the previously unknown painting The Adoration of the Magi (1660-1665) by the great Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617 - 1682) by the British The Guardian.
03.12.2012 During its heyday in the 19th and 20th centuries, the industrial city of Lens in the north of France sent its wealth to Paris in the form of coal.
30.11.2012 The State Museum of the Republic of Uzbekistan presented to the public the painting “Lamentation of Christ” (Lamentación sobre Cristo Muerto), Italian artist Paolo Veronese (Paolo Veronese, 1528-1588), recently discovered in the cellars of the museum.
28.11.2012 An earthquake in northern Italy in the region of Emilia Romagna damaged or almost completely destroyed many of the unique monuments of Renaissance architecture.
23.11.2012 When an act of vandalism was committed on a painting by Mark Rothko at an exhibition in Tate Modern last month, some experts predicted that the work would be returned to the exposition quite quickly.
22.11.2012 Half of the engravings associated with the name of the Dutch Golden Age artist, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), do not belong to the master himself, others were printed after his death.
15.11.2012 Date November 14, 2012 will undoubtedly go down in the history of Christie’s auction house, as the day when the most successful auction in history was held. Art sales reached an unprecedented amount of $ 412 million.
14.11.2012 Three men under the guise of an art teacher and two of his students stole paintings worth about $ 2 million from the Pretoria Art Museum in broad daylight.
11.11.2012 Pablo Picasso’s painting (1881-1973), Nature morte aux tulipes, which depicts one of the artist’s mistresses, was sold on November 8 for $ 37 million at Sotheby’s fall auction in New York.
09.11.2012 Restore artists working on frescoes in a forgotten chapel in Assisi believe they have stumbled upon evidence that stunning images found under layers of mud are the work of medieval artist Giotto.