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Christie’s and Sotheby’s held the most successful auctions in their history
15.11.2012 Date November 14, 2012 will undoubtedly go down in the history of Christie’s auction house, as the day when the most successful auction in history was held. Art sales reached an unprecedented amount of $ 412 million.
$ 2 Million Stolen From Pretoria Museum
14.11.2012 Three men under the guise of an art teacher and two of his students stole paintings worth about $ 2 million from the Pretoria Art Museum in broad daylight.
Picasso’s painting sold at Sotheby’s for $ 37 million
11.11.2012 Pablo Picasso’s painting (1881-1973), Nature morte aux tulipes, which depicts one of the artist’s mistresses, was sold on November 8 for $ 37 million at Sotheby’s fall auction in New York.
Restorers claim to have found Giotto’s lost murals in an abandoned earthquake-damaged chapel
09.11.2012 Restore artists working on frescoes in a forgotten chapel in Assisi believe they have stumbled upon evidence that stunning images found under layers of mud are the work of medieval artist Giotto.
In Prado exhibited a restored painting by Titian "San Juan Bautista"
07.11.2012 The Prado Museum presented yesterday the restored painting “San Juan Bautista” (San Juan Bautista), owned by Titian Vecellio (1488-1576).
Vatican plans to restrict access to the Sistine Chapel
02.11.2012 Entrance to the Sistine Chapel, which these days marks its 500th anniversary, may be limited.
An exhibition of the Northern Renaissance has opened in Buckingham Palace
30.10.2012 The influence of the Lutheran Reformation on the work of artists in Northern Europe can be seen in the exhibition of paintings from the personal collection of Queen Elizabeth II of England that opens in Buckingham Palace.
The largest Hindu temple dating from the 13th century found in Bali
30.10.2012 Construction workers in Bali discovered the largest, according to archaeologists, of all the famous ancient Hindu temple ever found on an Indonesian island.
Renaissance altar sold in France for 445,000 euros
29.10.2012 At an auction in Marseille, a French collector who wished to remain anonymous purchased for 445,000 euros a part of the altar, made by the Italian Renaissance painter Fra Angelico.
Prado Museum presents "Portrait of a Man" recognized by Velazquez
25.10.2012 In Madrid, the Prado Museum will exhibit “Portrait of a Man” by Velazquez. The painting arrived from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and will remain in Spain until January 27, 2013. The portrait will be exhibited in the framework of the project “Invited works”, launched by the Prado Museum in 2009.
Kunsthal Museum Security System Familiar to Robbers
24.10.2012 Robbers who stole seven paintings from the Kunsthal Museum entered the building through the front door, taking advantage of the security system, according to the New York Times, citing sources in the Dutch police.
Monumentalists painted an entire urban area in Puerto Rico
22.10.2012 The work of the world’s most famous monumental artists will adorn the walls of buildings in the Santurce area as part of the Los Angeles Murals hablan, the city’s first art festival, talking in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The world’s first monument to "degenerate" artists will be built in England
22.10.2012 In the county of Cumbria in the north-west of England, the world’s first monument will be built dedicated to artists who were labeled “degenerate” in Nazi Germany.
Museums in France will not pay wealth tax
19.10.2012 The French government abandoned the idea of taxing art collections of major national museums with a wealth tax.
Russian citizen abused an expensive painting by Mark Rothko
09.10.2012 In the London Tate Modern gallery, the famous work of Mark Rothko, entitled "Black on Brown," was spoiled by Vladimir Umanets, an artist from Russia, who had also previously tried to spoil Pollack’s paintings.