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Spanish church painted in graffiti style
20.02.2013 In the L’Hospitalet area, near Barcelona, a group of artists specializing in graffiti was invited to decorate the ceiling dome over the main altar of the local church.
France returns paintings stolen by the Nazis from Jews
20.02.2013 France promised to return seven paintings seized from their Jewish owners during World War II as part of an action to return the looted art objects that are now in the collection of the Louvre and other museums.
The seller of the picture is trying to sue Sotheby’s for an error in attribution
16.02.2013 Sotheby’s auction house is currently suing for damages arising from the underestimation of work sold at auction in London in 2006.
Bacon Triptych sold at Sotheby’s for $ 21.5 million
14.02.2013 A self-portrait of the triptych of Anglo-Irish artist Francis Bacon was sold for 13.7 million pounds (21.5 million US dollars, 15.9 million euros) at Sotheby’s contemporary art auction in London on Tuesday.
Stolen Matisse will return to Venezuela
10.02.2013 CARACAS. The painting “Odalisque in Red Bloomers” by the French artist Henri Matisse, stolen in 2002 in Caracas and discovered in Miami in the middle of last year, will return to Venezuela after the relevant court decision is made.
The works of Botticelli and Fra Bartolomeo sold at Christie’s for record prices
04.02.2013 NEW YORK. At Christie’s auction of Renaissance art objects, the painting "Madonna and Child with Young Saint John the Baptist" (1493-1495) by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) was sold by a record for the artist price of 10.4 million US dollars.
Belgium asks France to return the picture of Rubens "The Triumph of Judah Maccabee"
03.02.2013 BRUSSELS. The painting “The Triumph of Judas Maccabee” (Triomphe de Judas macchabée) of the Flemish baroque genius Peter Paul Rubens (Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640) again became the center of cultural relations between France and Belgium.
Naples historic center is gradually collapsing
01.02.2013 NAPLES. More and more cultural heritage sites in Naples are in poor condition. Only closed and abandoned churches, there are more than two hundred.
Hundreds of William Blake etchings found in the library of the University of Manchester
28.01.2013 In the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester, researchers have discovered a real treasure, consisting of the works of the poet and artist William Blake (William Blake).
Suspects of theft at Kunsthal Museum arrested in Romania
24.01.2013 ROTTERDAM. Romanian police arrested three people suspected of participating in a robbery of the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam last year.
An exhibition of El Greco paintings opens in Tokyo
20.01.2013 TOKYO. The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum presents an ambitious show of more than fifty works by the Greek artist Domenicos Theotocopoulos (El Greco, 1541-1614), in an attempt to reveal his most universal personal qualities.
Frescoes by Picasso in Norway under threat of destruction
19.01.2013 The Norwegian Directorate of Cultural Heritage fears that the first monumental murals on concrete, made by Pablo Picasso from the late 1950s to the early 1970s on the walls of two government buildings in Oslo, may be destroyed.
German experts confirmed that the painting found belongs to Klimt
17.01.2013 BERLIN. A group of experts from the University of Hanover (Northern Germany), believes that the authorship of the painting "Der trompetende Putto" belongs to the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918).
Another Mozart Portrait Discovered
16.01.2013 VEIN. In a young man with a thick round face, depicted in a tiny eighteenth-century painting, experts recognized the great composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The National Gallery in London found another work by Titian
15.01.2013 LONDON. The portrait of the Venetian doctor Girolamo Fracastoro (Girolamo Fracastoro; 1478-1553), which has been kept in the National Gallery since 1924, belongs to the brush of Titian (Tiziano Vecellio, 1480 / 1485-1576).