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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 .

92 works of art stolen more than a decade ago are on display at a castle in Pas de Calais

23.05.2024 The story seems incredibleOn Wednesday, May 22, police announced that a search had uncovered a large number of works of art (at least 92, according to new information released on Thursday, May 23) that were stolen between 2009 and 2013 from the vaults of the Sandelin Museum in Saintes -Omer, Pas-de-Calais (Hautes-France), as well as from nearby churches.