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New Salvador Dali Museum Building in Florida
25.01.2011 January 11, 2011 (11/1/11) at 11:11 in the American city of StPetersburg (Florida) opened an updated museum of Salvador Dali. The museum was originally opened in 1982. Industrialist and collector Reynolds Morse and his wife Eleanor Reese have put together an extensive collection of works by Salvador Dali and today there are more Dali masterpieces in this museum than in any other museum in the world outside of Spain.
The National Gallery received a donation of £ 2 million
22.01.2011 LONDON, January 21, 2011. The British National Gallery received an exclusive £ 2m gift from the Hintze family charity.
Rutgers University returned the portrait of the Renaissance, selected by the Nazis
18.01.2011 USA, New Brunswick, New Jersey. On January 14, 2011, the Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University transmitted a rare 16th-century painting to Simon Goodman, formerly Gutmann, grandson of Friedrich and Lucy Gutmann, victims of the Holocaust and former owners of the painting.
Masterpieces of the PRADO Museum on Google Earth
16.01.2011 With Google’s Masterpieces of the Prado Museum, you can see the finest details on selected paintings from the Prado Museum in Madrid.
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s painting “Finding Moses” sold for $ 35 million
06.11.2010 On November 5th, at Sotheby’s auction in New York, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s Masterpiece “Finding Moses” (19th century) sold for $ 35,922,500. The figure has more than seven times exceeded the pre-sale estimate of $ 5 million.
Portrait of pregnant Jerry Hall sold at Sotheby’s auction for almost a million dollars
20.10.2010 At Sotheby’s auction on October 15 and 16, buyers were offered 14 items from Jerry Hall’s private collection. The American model and actress decided to sell art objects to finally part with her past - the years when she was the wife of the leader of the legendary The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger.
The treasures of the Muslim world were sold at Sotheby’s auction for a record amount of £ 25,349,000
07.10.2010 London. On October 6 in the afternoon, the beginning of the Sotheby’s Islamic series of auctions took place, which struck with its significant amounts and a high estimate of lots - 25 349 000 pounds ($ 40 264 239).
The Vatican admitted that the painting "Martyrdom of St. Lawrence" does not belong to Caravaggio
03.08.2010 The Vatican’s chief historian published a report recently that a painting by Caravaggio was discovered in RomeThe head of the Vatican Museum, Antonio Paolucci, wrote on Monday, July 26, 2010, in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, that the work was discovered in the sacristy of the Jesuit church in Rome, but most likely this canvas is a copy from the original performed by one of the students of Caravaggio.
A thousandth birch bark letter was found in Veliky Novgorod
10.07.2010 The other day there was an event that can be considered one of the most memorable for lovers of Russian historyAccording to reliable sources, two more birch-bark letters were found at the Trinity excavation site in Veliky Novgorod. The first such find was recorded in the middle of the last century.
Picasso’s painting "Naked, Green Leaves and Bust" sold at Christie’s auction for $ 106.5 million
03.07.2010 Picasso’s painting “Naked, Green Leaves and Bust”, painted by him in 1932, was sold at Christies auction for $ 106.5 million, which amounted to a new, absolute, record for the price of an object of art ever sold at auction.
Vienna Leopold Museum will pay $ 19 million for Egon Schiele’s painting "Portrait of Wally"
20.06.2010 NYThe 12-year debate, which showed how difficult it is to prove that the Nazis stole art during the Second World War, ended on Tuesday. The parties agreed that the 1912 painting, entitled “Portrait of Wally,” will be returned to the Vienna Museum and will be on display with a note that it was stolen from a Jewish merchant by a fascist agent.
The painting "Madonna and Child" cannot be exported from the UK
03.06.2010 According to BBC News, one of the assistants to the Minister of Culture of England, Ed Vaizey (Edward Wasey), has banned the export of British paintings by the Spanish artist Bartolome Esteban Murillo called "Madonna and Child" from the UK.