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17.06.2012 Researchers believe that the drawings of the red sphere and handprints found in Spain, in the cave of El Castillo, are so ancient that they could not be done by modern man.
04.06.2012 Getty Research Portal Launched on Thursday, it was developed by the Getty Research Institute, a so-called Getty Museum sibling. The portal provides any Internet user - a scientist, student or an ordinary user - free access to a kind of art version of Google Books, containing about 20,000 digitized materials on the history of art and architecture.
31.05.2012 Opened on May 31, 1912, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin today celebrates its centenary, which has become a landmark event in the cultural life of the capital and the whole world.
31.05.2012 On Monday, the Hamat Tiberias synagogue, dating from the fourth century, was attacked by vandals who painted walls with graffiti-style spray cans and smashed the mosaic floor. The Israel Antiquities Authority suspects the deed of extremist ultraorthodoxes, who claim that authorities damaged ancient graves during excavations.
27.05.2012 In 1512, Raphael (1483-1520) was hired to write the Sistine Madonna. In 2012, the State Art Collections of Dresden (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden) decided to celebrate the 500th anniversary of this great canvas. The exhibition will shed light on the cultural and historical context, as well as on the history of this masterpiece.
11.05.2012 On Wednesday at the Sotheby’s contemporary art auction, Andy Warhol’s Double Elvis work was sold for $ 37 million, and the work of Roy Lichtenstein and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei broke all records.
03.05.2012 One of the most recognizable drawings in the world - Edward Munch’s “Scream” was sold at auction in New York on Wednesday for a record $ 119,922,500.
13.04.2012 The combined efforts of Serbian and Swiss policemen revealed a masterpiece of Paul Cezanne stolen from a museum in Switzerland in 2008. According to official information, 4 people were taken into custody trying to sell the canvas.
30.03.2012 The experts Louvre Museum substantially revised the creation date of the "Mona Lisa": Leonardo da Vinci he worked on his legendary canvas for ten years more than previously thought.
18.03.2012 March 13, 2012 Mikhail Piotrovsky presented to the public the result of 12 years of work: restorers not only cleaned the old varnish from the painting, but also got through later décor to the original image created by Titian (the painting was restored in the 19th century, applying a layer of low-quality paint, which by 1999- mu began to delaminate). As a result, the face of the Virgin Mary changed, it turned out that Joseph had long hair, and the tree in the picture looked different. Restoration of the canvas painted by Titian in 1507, specialists The Hermitage started in 1999
14.03.2012 It is possible that the researchers found traces of the lost fresco Leonardo da Vinci taking a sample of the substance that broke through the cracks in a fresco painted in the 16th century on the wall of one of the most famous buildings in Florence - Palazzo Vecchio.
24.02.2012 One of four versions of Edward Munch’s “Scream” masterpiece will be exhibited this spring at Sotheby’s in New York. It is assumed that the picture, which has become a visual embodiment of anxiety and horror, will go under the hammer for $ 80 million or more.
10.02.2012 More than 400 works by a well-known Dutch expressionist artist were discovered in an inconspicuous warehouse in England in January 2012.
04.02.2012 The very first (supposedly) copy of Mona Lisa is presented to the public at the Prado Museum in Madrid. This canvas was in the Prado collection for many years, but it was previously believed that this copy is one of many made after the death of the artist.
10.01.2012 According to the Greek police, well-organized criminals robbed the largest art museum in Greece - the Greek National Gallery. Early on Monday morning, January 9th, paintings were stolen, including paintings by Pablo Picasso and Pete Mondrian.