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07.11.2012 The Prado Museum presented yesterday the restored painting “San Juan Bautista” (San Juan Bautista), owned by Titian Vecellio (1488-1576).
02.11.2012 Entrance to the Sistine Chapel, which these days marks its 500th anniversary, may be limited.
30.10.2012 The influence of the Lutheran Reformation on the work of artists in Northern Europe can be seen in the exhibition of paintings from the personal collection of Queen Elizabeth II of England that opens in Buckingham Palace.
30.10.2012 Construction workers in Bali discovered the largest, according to archaeologists, of all the famous ancient Hindu temple ever found on an Indonesian island.
29.10.2012 At an auction in Marseille, a French collector who wished to remain anonymous purchased for 445,000 euros a part of the altar, made by the Italian Renaissance painter Fra Angelico.
25.10.2012 In Madrid, the Prado Museum will exhibit “Portrait of a Man” by Velazquez. The painting arrived from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and will remain in Spain until January 27, 2013. The portrait will be exhibited in the framework of the project “Invited works”, launched by the Prado Museum in 2009.
24.10.2012 Robbers who stole seven paintings from the Kunsthal Museum entered the building through the front door, taking advantage of the security system, according to the New York Times, citing sources in the Dutch police.
22.10.2012 The work of the world’s most famous monumental artists will adorn the walls of buildings in the Santurce area as part of the Los Angeles Murals hablan, the city’s first art festival, talking in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
22.10.2012 In the county of Cumbria in the north-west of England, the world’s first monument will be built dedicated to artists who were labeled “degenerate” in Nazi Germany.
19.10.2012 The French government abandoned the idea of taxing art collections of major national museums with a wealth tax.
09.10.2012 In the London Tate Modern gallery, the famous work of Mark Rothko, entitled "Black on Brown," was spoiled by Vladimir Umanets, an artist from Russia, who had also previously tried to spoil Pollack’s paintings.
05.10.2012 The Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam has announced one of the greatest discoveries in the field of painting. Found created six centuries ago, a previously unknown drawing belonging to the van Eyck studio (1390? -1441).
04.10.2012 The portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria (1609-1669) by Sir Anthony Van Dyck, considered the last known image of the Queen and lost over the centuries, was recently discovered and put on public display in London.
04.10.2012 The work of four finalists of the prestigious Turner Prize in contemporary art: monumental drawings, carnival performances and films that explore the psychological problems of society, sound installations and artworks, were presented yesterday at the Tate Britain Gallery in London.
03.10.2012 Police returned a multi-million dollar collection of paintings stolen in southern California from the home of financier Jeffrey Gundlach.