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VIDEO: Florence Tomb Opened to Help Identify the Real Mona Lisa
VIDEO: Florence Tomb Opened to Help Identify the Real Mona LisaFLORENCE — Researchers trying to identify the Renaissance model for Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" have excavated bones in a tomb in a...
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VIDEO: Israel Museum Showcases Botticelli Fresco
VIDEO: Israel Museum Showcases Botticelli FrescoThis 15th-century fresco, "The Annunciation of San Martino alla Scala", was painted in 1481 by Italian Renaissance painter, Sandro Botticelli.The Israel...
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VIDEO: Did Michelangelo Make Crucifix Donated to The Louvre?
VIDEO: Did Michelangelo Make Crucifix Donated to The Louvre?Canadian-born art collector Peter Silverman donated to The Louvre this summer a small wooden Florentine sculpture of Christ on the Cross,...
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VIDEO: Houghton Revisited, Old Masters and the Hermitage
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VIDEO: Van Gogh Painting Resurfaces After 45 Years for Paris Auction
VIDEO: Van Gogh Painting Resurfaces After 45 Years for Paris AuctionPARIS – A Van Gogh painting kept for 45 years in a private collection is going up for auction at the Million and Associates auction...
View ArticleVIDEO: “Girl with the Pearl Earring” Closes at Frick This Weekend
This weekend is your last chance to catch Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and fourteen other Dutch masterpieces at The Frick. It’s been nearly three decades since the “The Girl” has been...
View ArticleSale of the Week: Goya Prints
An etching from Francisco Goya's "Los Desastres de la Guerra" series (1810-20) On January 28th, during Old Master week in New York, Christie’s will offer 35 graphic masterpieces by Francisco José de...
View ArticleAuction Previews: Old Masters in New York
All eyes will be on works by Old Masters in New York next week (January 28 to 31), as Christie’s and Sotheby’s roll out a packed roster of sales including paintings, drawings, and sculpture, and...
View ArticleVIDEO: Christie's Hopes to Fetch $75M with Old Masters Week
Works by Old Masters are taking center stage this week in New York. Both Sotheby’s and Christie’s are offering up a packed roster of sales.In Rockefeller Plaza, Christie’s sales include paintings,...
View ArticleVIDEO: Classic Meets Contemporary in the Hill Collection
J. Tomilson Hill and his wife, Janine, have been outfitting their Upper East Side home with the best of the best that has come to market for decades. The Wall Street financier — the current vice...
View ArticleRescued Rembrandt: A Surviving Monuments Men Member Tells His Story
One of six surviving Monuments Men, 88-year-old Harry Ettlinger was tapped for the group in January 1945, the final year of World War II. A valuable member of the team because of his ability to read...
View ArticleVIDEO: The Hidden Face of Gustave Doré
A new exhibition on one of France’s most celebrated illustrators, Gustave Doré, at Paris’s Musée d'Orsay, billed as the first retrospective dedicated to the artist in 30 years, curiously features few...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Michelangelo: Notes on the First Celebrity Artist
It is hard to guess what Michelangelo Buonarroti would have made of such contemporary cultural stars as Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, or Lady Gaga. Although he was no stranger to dead bodies (for...
View ArticleVIDEO: The Mythical Furies Come to Life at The Prado Museum
MADRID — “Las Furias” or “The Furies” are a style of popular paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries. Twenty-eight of them are on display at Museo National del Prado in Madrid in one of its...
View ArticleVIDEO: 60 Works in 60 Seconds from TEFAF Maastricht 2014
MAASTRICHT — Vincent van Gogh’s "Moulin de la Galette" from 1887 is one of four of the Dutch painter’s works — and one of many stunning discoveries — on view at TEFAF, The European Fine Art Fair, which...
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MAASTRICHT, The Netherlands — The 27th edition of TEFAF Maastricht, also known as The European Fine Art Fair, opened to V.I.P. guests on Thursday, with wares from 275 art and antiques dealers from...
View ArticleVIDEO: Judd Tully Tours TEFAF Maastricht 2014
MAASTRICHT, the Netherlands — TEFAF Maastricht (The European Fine Art Fair) is in full swing, and during its 12-day run the fair will show off works from 275 of the world’s premier art and antiques...
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