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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).
18th Century Frescoes Restored at Old Royal Naval College
09.01.2013 LONDON. In the famous Painted Hall of the Old Royal Naval College, restoration work began on frescoes by Sir James Thornhill in the Baroque style on the western wall of the hall.
Matisse’s painting stolen 25 years ago is returned
09.01.2013 The stolen painting by Henri Matisse, valued at $ 1 million (620,000 pounds), was discovered by art critics in London.
Oslo seeks ways to accommodate Edward Munch’s legacy
05.01.2013 In 2013, the 150th anniversary of the expressionist master, the author of such familiar and iconic paintings as Scream, will be celebrated.
At the exhibition of works by Andy Warhol in China there will be no portraits of Mao
30.12.2012 At the request of the Chinese Ministry of Culture, ten works depicting former Communist Party leader Mao Zedong (1893-1976) will be expelled from the Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal exhibition
Is it possible that Van Gogh did not commit suicide?
20.12.2012 One of the scariest scenes in the history of art, until recently, without a doubt, was the drama that took place on July 27, 1890, when Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the chest while walking in the very place that is depicted in his newly painted painting " Wheat Field with Ravens ”(July 1890).
Millennium of Russian-German relations at an exhibition in Berlin
13.12.2012 From beeswax and birch bark to trophies and gas pipelines, the exhibition in Berlin shows a long, colorful and sometimes tragic history of relations between Germany and Russia, the two most populous countries in Europe.
$ 47 Million Head of the Young Apostle
07.12.2012 Rafael’s Head Of A Young Apostle (1483-1520) was sold for a record $ 47.8 million at yesterday’s auction at the Old Masters at Sotheby’s in London.