Old Masters/Renaissance
Is the much-discussed Leonardo da Vinci painting “Christ as Salvator Mundi” back on the market?The Dallas Museum of Art is currently in possession of the work, which was just re-attributed to the Italian master last July. Under the new direction of Maxwell...
Archeologists working in Florence reported to AFP the discovery of the final resting place of Lisa Gherardini this week, potentially confirming a crucial fragment in the biography of one of the most recognizable personages in Western culture and art history....
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union, which counts 150 National Gallery wardens as members, has called for strike action starting on the first day of the Olympic Games, on July 27.In an ongoing conflict with the museum's management, the union has...
Today, recered British Old Master John Constable’s masterpiece “The Lock” sold for a record-setting £22.4 million ($35.2 million) at Christie’s Old Masters evening sale in London. Though a record, the price was actually on the low end of the £...
SALE: Old Masters Evening SalesLOCATION: Christie's and Sotheby's London DATE: July 3, 6:30pm (Christie's), and June 4, 7pm (Sotheby's)ABOUT: It's time to get excited about Old Master sales, as the big auction houses in London prepare for the art market'...
This month, Caravaggio’s painting “The Raising of Lazarus” returns from the dead.Following an intensive five-month restoration that has transformed the classic painting, the work will be featured in a one-work exhibition at the Palazzo Braschi ...
What can sponsoring a Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the Louvre get you? For Italian fashion house Salavatore Ferragamo, it granted them a privilege that no other brand has had in the French institution’s 900-year existence: the permission to present the...
The National Portrait Gallery has just unveiled its latest acquisition: a portrait of the Chevalier d'Eon, an 18th century soldier and diplomat — and one of Britain's most celebrated cross dressers. Painted in 1792, the oil on canvas depicts the Chevalier...
Following an extensive cleaning and restoration process, the 16th century painting of a bearded man in a fur coat, attributed to a Titian follower and held at London's National Gallery, has turned out to be by the Venetian master himself."[Titian] is thought...
The Silver Altar from the Baptistry of St. John was unveiled to the public this week after six years of intensive, surgically delicate work by the Florentine Office of Precious Stones. Though outranked in popularity by Titian's "Venus of Urbino" or Leonardo...
