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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.
In Tokyo, Caravaggio’s lost painting, Ecstasy of St. Mary Magdalene, was first exhibited
15.03.2016 TOKYOPainting by an Italian artist Caravaggio , which went missing many centuries ago, was first shown to the public at an exhibition in Tokyo. "Ecstasy of St. Mary Magdalene ”(Finalmente é lei la vera Maddalena) was discovered in 2014 in a private collection and later identified as the original by art critic Mina Gregori, an expert on Caravaggio’s work.
Sotheby’s suffers losses and fires employees
11.03.2016 NEW YORK. Sotheby’s world-famous auction house suffered a loss of $ 11.2 million (8. 1 million pounds) in the fourth quarter of last year.
Pissarro’s painting, seized by the Nazis in 1941, will return to France
09.03.2016 NORMAN. Settlement was reached in a restitution process instituted against the University of Oklahoma by Leon Meyer in May 2013, in relation to Camille Pissarro’s painting “La bergère rentrant des moutons” (Shepherd Managed with Sheep), written in 1886.
An artist from Mexico for 15 years reproduces frescoes from the Sistine Chapel
08.03.2016 MEXICO CITY. Michelangelo from Mexico is called Miguel Macías. Over the past 15 years, he tried to reproduce the painting of the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of the local church of Our Lady of Endless Help.
Art historians have found a lost picture of Jerome Bosch
16.02.2016 SKERTOCHENBOS. "Typical Bosch Monsters" helped establish the authorship of a forgotten painting, which has long been stored in the vaults of the US Museum.
Istanbul police returned stolen painting by Pablo Picasso
16.02.2016 ISTANBUL. Turkish police discovered the second most recent original painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso during a secret operation in Istanbul. This was reported by the state news agency Anatolia.
Mysterious works of Jan van Eyck presented in New York
12.02.2016 NEW YORK. In Belgian Ghent, there is one of the most significant examples of Western medieval painting - the altar of Jan van Eyck, painted for the Cathedral of St. Bavon in 1432.
From Michelangelo to Marden: the seven brightest fights in the history of painting
11.02.2016 Nothing human is alien to geniuses. Often, they had to solve their creative questions or prove their case with the help of fists. We present you an overview of the most desperate fights in the history of painting.
The court alchemist John Dee was depicted in a picture in a circle of skulls
26.01.2016 LONDON. In Henry Gillard Glindoni’s painting, “John Dee performing an experiment before Elizabeth I”, experts found mysterious figures hidden from the eyes of a picturesque medieval alchemist and mathematician John Dee layer.