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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.
Only five paintings from the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt were stolen by the Nazis from the Jews
25.01.2016 BERLIN. A group of experts created by the German government to investigate the history of the collection of more than 1,500 works of art discovered in 2012 claims that only five paintings were illegally seized by the Nazis from Jews during World War II.
Masterpieces from Petworth House showcased in Sussex
22.01.2016 SUSSEXMore than half a century ago, specialists at the National Gallery in London explored the attics of a house in West Sussex, trying, among dirty family portraits, twilight landscapes and religious works, to choose those paintings that the government would accept instead of cash to pay off a huge inheritance tax.
Two businessmen detained in Turkey while trying to sell a van Dyck painting
19.01.2016 Two businessmen were taken into custody by the Turkish authorities after they tried to sell a painting allegedly brought into the country by smugglingThe painting belongs to the brush of the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck (Anthony van Dyck). According to unofficial information, the detainees are Turkish citizens.
The owner of the controversial Monet lost the court
14.01.2016 PARIS. While Guy Wildenstein was charged with tax fraud and money laundering in Paris, another French court made the final decision about the fate of Monet’s painting, which was the subject of a fierce struggle between its owner and Wildenstein Art Institute.
In the paintings of the Dutchman van Ostade, naked peasants were painted over
26.12.2015 LOS ANGELES. 17th century Dutch painter Isaac van Ostade always considered a calmer artist than his brother and teacher Adrian (Adriaen van Ostade) known for its funny and sometimes impudent scenes from the everyday life of peasants.
The paintings stolen in Holland were found in Ukraine
15.12.2015 AMSTERDAM. A collection of paintings stolen ten years ago in the Netherlands is up for sale in Ukraine.
Convict in the UK forger claims to have forged a drawing of Leonardo da Vinci
12.12.2015 Well-known counterfeiter Shaun Greenhalgh claims to have faked a picture Leonardo La Bella Principessa (Fair Princess), valued at £ 150 million.