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13.04.2016 PARIS. In the south of France, a painting was discovered that may have been painted 400 years ago by Italian artist Caravaggio. The last 150 years, the masterpiece lay in the attic of an old house, in complete obscurity.
13.04.2016 AMSTERDAM. If you think that the portrait of a thirty-year-old man in a black hat and white collar is very similar to those paintings that he painted in the 17th century Rembrandt , you will make Bas Korsten a very happy person. In fact, the authors of this picture are programmers.
11.04.2016 The High Court of Sweden on Monday called Wikimedia Sweden guilty of violating copyright law due to the fact that the resource provides free access to its database of photographs of artwork without the consent of artists.
11.04.2016 Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev used a company registered in the British Virgin Islands to hide art objects from his ex-wife Elena during their divorce proceedings.
03.04.2016 The Santa Maria Antiqua Church, built in the 6th century and featuring a rare collection of early Christian art, is reopened to the public in Rome after a restoration that took more than 30 years.
26.03.2016 VERONA. Police arrested twelve people suspected of stealing paintings worth a total of about 15 million euros (16.6 million US dollars). 17 paintings, including works by Tintoretto, Mantegna and Peter Paul Rubens, were stolen by armed criminals from the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona on November 19 last year.
24.03.2016 LUDWIGSHAFEN. The Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany, has announced the collection of donations in order to buy the painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and leave it in his collection. An agreement on this was reached with the heirs of Alfred Hess, whose family owned the canvas before the outbreak of World War II.
19.03.2016 LONDON. A new exhibition at the Royal Academy introduces viewers to the work of the 16th-century Venetian genius Giorgione. Most of the paintings presented at the exhibition and provided by the royal collection of art, Italy and the United States, were first proclaimed as his original works, and then debunked, some of the paintings several times.
18.03.2016 AMSTERDAM. The stellar attraction of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum) suffers from discoloration of paints and a layer of varnish added in later years.
16.03.2016 MADRID. Five paintings by British artist Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon), totaling 30 million euros (23. 2 million pounds), were stolen from a collector’s house in Madrid.
15.03.2016 TOKYO. Painting by an Italian artist Caravaggio , which went missing many centuries ago, was first shown to the public at an exhibition in Tokyo. "Ecstasy of St. Mary Magdalene ”(Finalmente é lei la vera Maddalena) was discovered in 2014 in a private collection and later identified as the original by art critic Mina Gregori, an expert on Caravaggio’s work.
11.03.2016 NEW YORK. Sotheby’s world-famous auction house suffered a loss of $ 11.2 million (8. 1 million pounds) in the fourth quarter of last year.
09.03.2016 NORMAN. Settlement was reached in a restitution process instituted against the University of Oklahoma by Leon Meyer in May 2013, in relation to Camille Pissarro’s painting “La bergère rentrant des moutons” (Shepherd Managed with Sheep), written in 1886.
08.03.2016 MEXICO CITY. Michelangelo from Mexico is called Miguel Macías. Over the past 15 years, he tried to reproduce the painting of the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of the local church of Our Lady of Endless Help.
16.02.2016 SKERTOCHENBOS. "Typical Bosch Monsters" helped establish the authorship of a forgotten painting, which has long been stored in the vaults of the US Museum.