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The return of Carpaccio’s masterpiece has divided Italy and Slovenia.
03.10.2025 On September 4, 2025, the 1518 work by Venetian Renaissance master Vittore Carpaccio, "Madonna and Child Enthroned with Six Saints," returned to the Slovenian city of PiranThe relocation of the altarpiece from Padua, where it had been housed for over 85 years, sparked violent protests from Italian politicians and reopened old historical wounds.
A forgotten Rubens masterpiece has been discovered in a Parisian mansion.
11.09.2025 The painting "Christ on the Cross", created around 1613 by the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens, was found during an auction property appraisal and will go under the hammer on November 30, 2025.
Christie’s closes digital art department: end of NFT era at traditional auction houses
08.09.2025 British auction house Christie’s has decided to close its dedicated digital art department, integrating NFT sales into the broader category of 20th and 21st century art. This decision marks the symbolic end of an era that began just four years ago with the record-breaking sale of Beeple’s digital artwork.
Medieval Graffiti of the Upper Room of Zion Deciphered with New Technologies
19.04.2025 An international team of researchers has successfully deciphered dozens of medieval graffiti found on the walls of the Upper Room in Jerusalem, the site where Christian tradition holds that the Last Supper took place.
Unknown Donatello sculpture discovered in museum storerooms in Slovakia
07.03.2025 A marble bust depicting the Mantuan noblewoman Cecilia Gonzaga was discovered in a storeroom of the Spiš Museum in Levoca, Slovakia. It was previously thought to be a 19th-century copy and at some point used as a toy by young girls in a correctional facility.
Debate over Rubens’s masterpiece’s authenticity flares up again
03.03.2025 A new round of debate has flared up in the art world about the authenticity of the painting "Samson and Delilah", attributed to Peter Paul Rubens and kept in London’s National Gallery.
Images from neural networks cannot be protected by copyright, US rules
01.02.2025 This decision would effectively remove protection for, for example, Jason Allen’s work "Théâtre D’opéra Spatial" ("Spatial Theatre"), created using a neural network.
Los Angeles artists mourn as studios and artwork go up in smoke
13.01.2025 Artists who lived and worked in Altadena and Pacific Palisades are concerned about the irreparable loss of their work and livelihoods.
New archaeological finds near Luxor
10.01.2025 Egypt has unveiled several finds near the famous city of Luxor, including ancient rock-cut tombs and burial shafts dating back 3,600 years.
Getty Images and Shutterstock to merge into $3.7 billion stock photo giant
07.01.2025 Getty Images said Tuesday it had agreed to merge with rival Shutterstock in a stock-purchase deal that
AI does not confirm Raphael’s authorship of part of the painting "Madonna with the Rose"
02.01.2025 The inconsistent style of depiction of St. John’s face in the Madonna of the Rose has been a subject of debate among art historians for years.
Artificial Intelligence Helped Discover 300 New Geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert
26.09.2024 Using an artificial intelligence (AI) system, a team of archaeologists has discovered in just a few months in the Nazca Desert (Peru) almost as many geoglyphs as were found in the entire last centuryThe large number of new figures allowed the researchers to identify two main types and offer an explanation for the possible reasons or functions that prompted their creators to draw them on the ground more than 2,000 years ago.
Amazing Finds Under the Burnt-Out Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris
18.09.2024 The terrible fire at Notre Dame on April 15, 2019, has led to some valuable discoveriesAs part of a major restoration effort, some fifty archaeologists from the company Inrap have been excavating beneath and around the cathedral for five years. At a press conference on Tuesday, September 17, the researchers revealed their impressive findings, which reveal 2,000 years of history.
Banksy’s ’Girl With Balloon’ Thieves Arrested in London
17.09.2024 The girl with the balloon flew away but returned unharmed. After three days of investigation, a copy of the famous work by street artist Banksy, stolen from a London art gallery on September 8, was found by police, and on September 11, two thieves were arrested.
Lightning Damages Arch of Constantine in Rome
09.09.2024 The gods of Olympus have struck! On Tuesday, September 3, in the afternoon, while a violent thunderstorm was raging over Rome, the Arch of Constantine (the largest of the three ancient triumphal arches remaining in the Italian capital, a marble treasure from the 4th century, located between the Colosseum and the Palatine, in the Selio district) was struck by lightning .