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08.11.2016 FLORENCE. In November 1966, torrential rains caused the Arno River to overflow and flood the streets of Florence. Flooding the halls and cellars of museums and galleries, the raging waters damaged or destroyed thousands of paintings, frescoes and manuscripts - a tragic loss for the city, which is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance.
12.10.2016 ABERDINSHIRE. While working on another episode of the Air Force’s broadcast, Britain’s Lost Masterpieces, at the National Trust for Scotland’s Haddo House in Aberdeenshire, art historian Bendor Grosvenor and his team of experts found a picture that may belong to Raphael’s brush. Purchased for $ 25 at the end of the 19th century, today its price may rise to $ 26 million.
01.09.2016 Old masters, but new rules of the game: over the past few weeks, two experts on the work of old masters left Christie’s auction house at once. This was due to the fact that sales in this segment of the market fell immediately by 33 percent, as evidenced by the 2016 TEFAF Art Market report.
31.08.2016 It is impossible to guess what next time will offend people’s feelings. Not so long ago, researchers from the University of Cambridge found a skirt in the Renaissance manuscript, drafted by naked Eve in one of the illustrations. Rejection of nudity was not something special: for some time between the 16th and 18th centuries, especially prim owners of books painted over the nudity of biblical characters, even though it was recognized and revered by the church.
27.07.2016 Since its inception in 1973, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has the largest collection of works by the genius of post-impressionism. Until that moment, all the museum’s exhibitions were focused on demonstrating the high aesthetics and the progress of Dutch painting, the progress “on the verge of madness” that was achieved thanks to the artist’s creativity.
25.07.2016 At the age of 18, Francis O’Neill (Francis O’Neill), a novice young artist, went on a trip to Europe and was struck by the masterpieces of Rembrandt, which he happened to see in major museums. Like many before him, O’Neill admired the technical accuracy of the paintings of the great master.