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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 TOKYOPainting 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.
16.02.2016 ISTANBUL. Turkish police discovered the second most recent original painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso during a secret operation in Istanbul. This was reported by the state news agency Anatolia.
12.02.2016 NEW YORK. In Belgian Ghent, there is one of the most significant examples of Western medieval painting - the altar of Jan van Eyck, painted for the Cathedral of St. Bavon in 1432.
11.02.2016 Nothing human is alien to geniuses. Often, they had to solve their creative questions or prove their case with the help of fists. We present you an overview of the most desperate fights in the history of painting.
26.01.2016 LONDON. In Henry Gillard Glindoni’s painting, “John Dee performing an experiment before Elizabeth I”, experts found mysterious figures hidden from the eyes of a picturesque medieval alchemist and mathematician John Dee layer.
25.01.2016 BERLIN. A group of experts created by the German government to investigate the history of the collection of more than 1,500 works of art discovered in 2012 claims that only five paintings were illegally seized by the Nazis from Jews during World War II.
22.01.2016 SUSSEXMore than half a century ago, specialists at the National Gallery in London explored the attics of a house in West Sussex, trying, among dirty family portraits, twilight landscapes and religious works, to choose those paintings that the government would accept instead of cash to pay off a huge inheritance tax.
19.01.2016 Two businessmen were taken into custody by the Turkish authorities after they tried to sell a painting allegedly brought into the country by smugglingThe painting belongs to the brush of the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck (Anthony van Dyck). According to unofficial information, the detainees are Turkish citizens.
14.01.2016 PARIS. While Guy Wildenstein was charged with tax fraud and money laundering in Paris, another French court made the final decision about the fate of Monet’s painting, which was the subject of a fierce struggle between its owner and Wildenstein Art Institute.