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27.07.2016 MUNICH. Decades after World War II, more than 10,000 works of art confiscated by the Nazis in Bavaria, according to official statistics, returned to their rightful owners, including descendants of Jewish families. A new scandalous investigation reveals how families of former Nazis persecuted Bavarian officials in attempts to return the transferred art objects, which they continued to regard as their property.
29.06.2016 BULLIAS. The fact that Benito Amor kept archaeological and cultural values at home was revealed back in March.
29.06.2016 EDINBURGH. Leading German collector Heiner Pietzsch announced that he would not provide art from his personal collection to museums in England if the country left the European Union. Instead, Pitch is ready to collaborate with museums in Scotland.
20.06.2016 A marble sculpture of the head of the first emperor of Rome, stolen and exported from the country forty years ago, returned to the capital of Italy.
19.06.2016 LONDON. The Smithsonian Museum will not open a branch in London. The museum management abandoned this idea in favor of cooperation with the Albert and Victoria Museum and will place its collections in their new building in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
07.06.2016 CAMBRIDGE. The Fitzwilliam Museum presented to the public a painting by the Renaissance artist Sebastiano del Piombo “Adoration of the Shepherds”.
06.06.2016 VEIN. Using a new, non-invasive method of sampling for DNA analysis, scientists were able to determine which particular fungus left such noticeable traces in the da Vinci painting
04.06.2016 PARIS. Two of the world’s greatest art museums take extraordinary measures to protect their collections from flooding caused by rising water levels in the Seine.
21.05.2016 NEW YORK. Christie’s auction house may have to pay up to $ 23 million for damaged artwork affected by the Brooklyn flood in 2012.
13.05.2016 LION. Ahmed Ziani, a resident of Lyon, who has been reselling works of art since losing his job as a mechanic, may have stumbled upon a long-lost masterpiece by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
29.04.2016 DERBY. “Colosseum in the Daylight” and “Colosseum in the Moonlight” - the last two surviving paintings depicting the ancient Roman amphitheater by artist Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797) are presented to the public for the first time in 56 years.
28.04.2016 LONDON. Previously unknown self-portrait of Lucian Freud will be presented at the exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery.
23.04.2016 LONDON. The Victoria and Albert Museum will name the new hall, which will appear after the reconstruction, in honor of the American billionaire of Ukrainian origin Leonid Blavatnik. Although the exact amount of the donation remains confidential, experts believe that it is a few million pounds.
15.04.2016 LONDON. “I apologize, but all this is too good to be true.” This statement was made on the pages of The Guardian art columnist Jonathan Jones (Jonathan Jones). Below is the full text.
14.04.2016 Rembrandt’s painting “Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet” (1657), which was banned from exporting from the United Kingdom last fall, will be leased to the National Museum Cardiff. An anonymous foreign buyer has provided this masterpiece to the museum for a period of three years.