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13.11.2016 PARIS. After 10 months of restoration The louvre museum put up a picture again "St. John the Baptist" (St John the Baptist) one of the last works Leonardo da Vinci . The masterpiece took its place in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, which is visited by about 9 million people a year.


12.11.2016 VEIN. Pretending to be potential buyers, Austrian law enforcement authorities arrested a group of dealers selling fake paintings by Pablo Picasso back in July 2016, but details of this operation have been released just now.


05.11.2016 EX-AN-PROVENCE. A former electrician who had kept about 300 works of Pablo Picasso in his garage for almost 40 years, told the French Court of Appeals that the artist’s widow may have wanted to hide these works from her family.


04.11.2016 A new study casts doubt on the popular theory that the artist cut off his ear after a quarrel with Paul Gauguin.


02.11.2016 PARIS. Two collectors from the United States, Spencer and Marlene Hays, donated the Musée d’Orsay to their personal art collection. This donation was the largest for France since World War II - more than 600 paintings from the late XIX - early XX centuries, including works by Pierre Bonnard, Eduard Vuillard, Amedeo Modigliani and Henri Matisse.


28.10.2016 AMSTERDAM. This picture convinced experts in The Louvre . The main French cultural officials declared it a national treasure.


"St. Jerome" Parmigianino - a fake? Investigation of scandal surrounding falsification of paintings continues

24.10.2016 PARIS. Painting "Saint Jerome" (Saint Jerome) attributed to Parmigianino (Parmigianino) , may be involved in a scandal involving private collectors, a large auction house and famous museums. There is reason to believe that the picture is a fake.


Caravaggio’s painting was at the center of the money laundering trial

18.10.2016 PARIS. Caravaggio’s painting was the main evidence of the prosecution in the case of the Franco-American billionaire from the Wildenstein dynasty.


Gentileschi’s painting discovered 4 years ago may turn out to be a modern fake

17.10.2016 LONDON. Orazio Gentileschi’s painting David Contemplating the Head of Goliath, Orazio Gentileschi, until recently at the National Gallery in London, may turn out to be a fake. If so, it will seriously undermine the credibility of the gallery.


The vicissitudes of fate: how in the UK the attitude towards the work of Caravaggio changed

15.10.2016 LONDON. Next month, the National Gallery in London opens the exhibition "After Caravaggio" (Beyond Caravaggio), which will present the work of followers of the Italian maestro of the Baroque era. The exhibition includes 49 paintings provided mainly by educational institutions in the UK, such artists as Orazio Gentileschi, Jusepe de Ribera and Valantin de Boulogne.


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