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Under the portrait of Mona Lisa they found an image of another woman
08.12.2015 Pascal Cotte spent more than 10 years analyzing the picture using reflected light.
How to identify a fake: secrets of falsifiers
24.08.2015 Can you recognize if someone is lying? There are scientifically proven signals that most people unknowingly use when they lie.
American artist recreates "Mona Lisa" as she looked in the XVI century
02.04.2015 After a year of research, the famous American artist Jenness Cortez announced the completion of her restoration work. Leonardo da Vinci " Mona Lisa "In the form that the picture could look at the time of its completion, at the beginning of the XVI century.
Paul Gauguin’s painting sold for $ 300 million
08.02.2015 NEW YORK. The painting “When will you marry?” (Nafea Faa Ipoipo, 1892) by French post-impressionist Paul Gauguin (Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903) was purchased for a cosmic sum of 300 million US dollars.
"Ball of History" on the Palace Square of St. Petersburg in honor of the 250th anniversary of the Hermitage
08.12.2014 On December 6, with the support of the Government and the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg, a 3D-mapping performance of the “Ball of History” was held in honor of the celebration of the 250th anniversary State Hermitage Museum .
The ugly foot of Titian
01.11.2014 ArtHistoryNews: The Restorer disfigured Danai’s leg in Titian’s work “Danae, Receiving Zeus in the Form of Golden Rain”.
The exact time of birth of impressionism is calculated
25.08.2014 SAN MARCOS. Astrophysicist Donald Olson calculated the exact time when Monet painted his first painting in a new style, later called “impressionism”.
The path of development of the Internet in Russia. What may result from amendments to the law on personal data.
05.07.2014 On July 4, 2014, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the second and third reading amendments to the law on information obliging Internet companies wishing to work in Russia to store personal data of Russian users on the territory of the Russian FederationIn this regard, questions from the users of the site about the consequences of these innovations.
Rembrandt’s new etching found
29.01.2014 The work of the greatest artist of the world for centuries has been hidden in the pantry of the National Gallery of Scotland, considered a copy of a masterpiece.
The Last Supper by Giorgio Vasari will be restored 47 years after the flood in Florence
13.01.2014 LOS ANGELES. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the flood caused by the overflow of the Arno River in Florence, 1,546 flood-damaged paintings can be restored, all thanks to new restoration methods developed by experts specifically for such cases.
Vermeer’s secret revealed?
11.12.2013 One of the most famous living artists, David Hockney, published a book in which he suggested that Johannes Vermeer, like many 17th-century artists, used a pinhole camera to create their unusually realistic paintings.
Did the Nazis kidnap Mona Lisa?
14.11.2013 PARISThe legendary story of the innumerable riches hidden by the Nazis in alpine salt mines has again stirred up the minds of the public after the recent discovery in a Munich apartment of a magnificent art collection valued at more than 1 billion euros and possibly illegally misappropriated by an art dealer of the Third Reich.
Magazine Focus revealed the secret of the German government - a warehouse with works of art worth 1 billion euros
04.11.2013 BERLINA sensational message appeared in Sunday news releases in Germany - almost 1,500 priceless works of art, including painting, drawing and engravings by Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, Max Liebermann, Paul Klee, Max Beckmann, Emil Nolde, Oscar Kokoschka, and the works of Dürer considered lost, stolen by the Nazis during World War II, were found in an ordinary Munich apartment.
Medinsky will “wake up” culture in 2014
23.10.2013 MOSCOW. “The Year of Culture in Russia,” commented Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, “is not only a chance to receive additional funding. We want to “wake up” the culture in the regions. ”
Portrait of Isabella d’Este found by Leonardo da Vinci
12.10.2013 Portrait of Isabella d’Este attributed to the brush Leonardo da Vinci , found in a private Swiss collectionAccording to experts, the woman in the picture has the same mysterious smile as Mona Lisa, and the painting itself is painted with the same pigment and has the same primer as in the paintings of the great master.