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Day and night: Joseph Wright’s paintings returned to the Derby exhibition after restoration
29.04.2016 DERBY. “Colosseum in the Daylight” and “Colosseum in the Moonlight” - the last two surviving paintings depicting the ancient Roman amphitheater by artist Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797) are presented to the public for the first time in 56 years.
Lucien Freud’s unknown self-portrait was handed over to the state in payment of inheritance tax
28.04.2016 LONDON. Previously unknown self-portrait of Lucian Freud will be presented at the exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery.
Ukrainian billionaire donates millions to the Victoria and Albert Museum
23.04.2016 LONDON. The Victoria and Albert Museum will name the new hall, which will appear after the reconstruction, in honor of the American billionaire of Ukrainian origin Leonid Blavatnik. Although the exact amount of the donation remains confidential, experts believe that it is a few million pounds.
Jonathan Jones: Caravaggio found in the attic - fake
15.04.2016 LONDON. “I apologize, but all this is too good to be true.” This statement was made on the pages of The Guardian art columnist Jonathan Jones (Jonathan Jones). Below is the full text.
Rembrandt’s painting banned for export, while remaining in the UK
14.04.2016 Rembrandt’s painting “Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet”, which was banned from exporting from the United Kingdom last fall, will be leased to the National Museum Cardiff. An anonymous foreign buyer has provided this masterpiece to the museum for a period of three years.
The painting found in the attic may belong to Caravaggio.
13.04.2016 PARIS. In the south of France, a painting was discovered that may have been painted 400 years ago by Italian artist Caravaggio. The last 150 years, the masterpiece lay in the attic of an old house, in complete obscurity.
"New Rembrandt" presented in Amsterdam
13.04.2016 AMSTERDAM. If you think that the portrait of a thirty-year-old man in a black hat and white collar is very similar to those paintings that he painted in the 17th century Rembrandt , you will make Bas Korsten a very happy person. In fact, the authors of this picture are programmers.
Wikimedia Sweden fined for copyright infringement
11.04.2016 The High Court of Sweden on Monday called Wikimedia Sweden guilty of violating copyright law due to the fact that the resource provides free access to its database of photographs of artwork without the consent of artists.
Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev used an offshore company to hide paintings from his ex-wife
11.04.2016 Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev used a company registered in the British Virgin Islands to hide art objects from his ex-wife Elena during their divorce proceedings.
The Sistine Chapel of the Middle Ages reopens to the public in Rome
03.04.2016 The Santa Maria Antiqua Church, built in the 6th century and featuring a rare collection of early Christian art, is reopened to the public in Rome after a restoration that took more than 30 years.
Arrested 12 people who stole paintings from the Museum of Verona
26.03.2016 VERONA. Police arrested twelve people suspected of stealing paintings worth a total of about 15 million euros (16.6 million US dollars). 17 paintings, including works by Tintoretto, Mantegna and Peter Paul Rubens, were stolen by armed criminals from the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona on November 19 last year.
The German Museum is looking for sponsors to buy paintings by Ernst Kirchner
24.03.2016 LUDWIGSHAFENThe Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany, has announced the collection of donations in order to buy the painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and leave it in his collection. An agreement on this was reached with the heirs of Alfred Hess, whose family owned the canvas before the outbreak of World War II.
Giorgione Exhibition - Art Puzzle
19.03.2016 LONDONA new exhibition at the Royal Academy introduces viewers to the work of the 16th-century Venetian genius Giorgione. Most of the paintings presented at the exhibition and provided by the royal collection of art, Italy and the United States, were first proclaimed as his original works, and then debunked, some of the paintings several times.
Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” can be restored to their original color
18.03.2016 AMSTERDAM. The stellar attraction of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum) suffers from discoloration of paints and a layer of varnish added in later years.
5 paintings by Francis Bacon stolen in Madrid
16.03.2016 MADRID. Five paintings by British artist Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon), totaling 30 million euros (23. 2 million pounds), were stolen from a collector’s house in Madrid.