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Ancient mural broken out of a wall in Pompeii

30.03.2014 POMPEII. In early March, thieves stole an ancient fresco depicting the goddess Artemis, breaking it out of the wall of the House of Neptune and Amphitrite in the UNESCO-protected part of Pompeii, which is closed to visitors.

Art critic Bendor Grosvenor found a real portrait of Prince Charles

18.03.2014 EDINBURGH. Once, Bendor Grosvenor broke the hearts of thousands of Scots and the entire national souvenir industry by announcing that the portrait, which was considered to be the only image of handsome Prince Charlie that came to us, actually depicts his younger brother Henry.

Can you believe the expertise in the modern art market?

12.03.2014 A fake painting by Marc Chagall, owned by a businessman from Leeds and bought for £ 100,000 in 1992, was publicly burned last month, and the Istanbul Art Gallery closed an entire exhibition of Juan Miro in 2013 after a comment by one of the experts that some works at the exhibition are fakes.

Paul Gauguin’s largest monographic exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

08.03.2014 NEW YORK. The largest monographic exhibition of the French artist Paul Gauguin "Metamorphoses" will be held at MoMA in New York.

Italian cleaning lady throws a piece of modern art into the trash

23.02.2014 BARI. A cleaning lady in southern Italy mistakenly threw into the trash works of modern art, which were to become part of the exhibition in the local gallery of modern art.

Pictures of Juan Miro will still be auctioned

23.02.2014 LONDON. The auction for the sale of 85 works by the Catalan artist Juan Miro, owned by the Portuguese government, will be held in London in June this year.

A new exhibition at the Museum of Art of Mascarella raises the debate around the work of Caravaggio

22.02.2014 WILLIAMSBURG. Visitors to the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, USA, have a rare opportunity to see three magnificent paintings by Caravaggio and listen to the debates of world leading authorities on Italian painting.

Specialists of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics have solved the mystery of the picture attributed to Leger

18.02.2014 VENICE. In the early 1970s, Douglas Cooper, a friend of the famous art collector, American Peggy Guggenheim and creative expert Fernand Henri Léger, expressed doubts about the authenticity of this artist’s paintings in the collection Peggy.

Francis Bacon painting sold for a record price

14.02.2014 LONDON. The painting by British artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992) “Portrait of a Talking George Dyer” was yesterday the most expensive work of the painter ever sold at auction.

Did the priest find the original Murillo?

14.02.2014 GRENADA, SPAIN. Joaquin Caler (Joaquin Caler), a rural priest, whose parish includes three small villages near Grenada, in southern Spain, claims to have made the greatest discovery in the field of art.

Michelangelo was an experienced forger

11.02.2014 Art critic Thierry Lenain of Institut Français in London claims that Michelangelo often faked works of art.

Treasures stolen by the Nazis were rescued by simple miners

07.02.2014 The recently published book by Konrad Kramar, an Austrian writer and journalist, sheds new light on what happened to the tremendous artistic treasures plundered by the Nazis for the potential “Fuhrer Museum” in the Austrian city of Linz.