Theseus Plate Tops $3.5 Million Sotheby’s Royal Sale in London
A large Maiolica plate showing Theseus rescuing Hippodamia was the top lot in Sotheby’s “Of Royal and Noble Descent” auction which raised a total of $3.5 million.The footed dish, attributed to the...
View ArticlePrado Museum Acquires Fra Angelico Masterpiece
Madrid’s Museo del Prado has acquired Fra Angelico’s “The Virgin of the Pomegranate” from the Alba ducal collection for 18 million Euros. It is the only masterpiece of early 15th-century Florentine...
View ArticleSneak Peek at TEFAF 2016
The European Fine Art Fair, TEFAF, opens its 29th edition on March 11 at the MECC - Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre, bringing together 269 exhibitors from 20 countries, mostly European but...
View ArticleChristopher Forbes’s Napoleonic Art Collection to Be Sold in France
Media and business tycoon Christopher Forbes’s collection of art, objects and historical souvenirs from Napoleon III’s Second Empire will return to France for auction at Osenat in Fontainebleau on...
View ArticleAn Evening Dedicated to Old Master Paintings at Sotheby's
Following what appeared to be a successful sale of Old Master paintings and drawings from the trove of A. Alfred Taubman at Sotheby’s New York on January 27, on the following day, the house held a...
View ArticleChristie’s Facilitates Landmark Private Sale of Two Rembrandts
Christie’s has facilitated the first ever joint acquisition of two masterpieces by Rembrandt van Rijn by the French and Dutch states through its Private Sale channel. The portraits of Maerten Soolmans...
View ArticleTravel Pictures From Rembrandt to Brueghel Go on Show at Fondation Custodia
The Fondation Custodia, housed in Hôtel Turgot in Paris, has become a spot for high-quality exhibitions under the impetus of its director Ger Luijten, in charge since 2010.About 120 exquisite Dutch and...
View ArticleDatebook: Celebrating Hieronymus Bosch
The Dutch hamlet Den Bosch is pulling out all the stops with a host of events to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch, medieval master of the macabre. Foremost among them is...
View ArticleJean-Baptiste Huet Gets First Solo Show After 200 Years: Curator Interview
Jean-Baptiste Huet is part of an important line of 18th-century French artists. Yet he has never before had a true solo exhibition, according to the Cognacq-Jay Museum, which is now staging one, some...
View ArticleSotheby’s to Sell Rubin’s Pelham Collection as Gallery Reorganizes
Sotheby’s is to sell what it describes as one of the finest groups of antiques to be auctioned in recent years. The 180 lots coming up in London on March 8 are from the collections of Alan Rubin of...
View ArticleVideo: "Botticelli Reimagined" at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Celebrated in his time then largely forgotten for nearly 300 years, Sandro Botticcelli was ‘rediscovered’ in the 19th century by the pre-Raphaelites and his influence on the art world has remained...
View ArticleBrand Ambassadors: TEFAF Plans Its Move to New York
In a major expansion announced in early February, the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) will establish a foothold in the North American market with the purchase of two mainstay events on the New York art...
View Article[Video] In the Age of Giorgione at the Royal Academy in London
The Royal Academy of Arts has just opened “In the Age of Giorgione,” an exhibition dedicated to Venetian artists during the first decade of the sixteenth century, a pivotal period where revolutionary...
View ArticleMasterpieces of Budapest on Show in Luxembourg Museum, Paris
Some of the greatest masterpieces from Hungarian museums are getting their first showing in Paris at the Luxembourg Museum.A comprehensive and educational show gathers about 80 works from the Museum of...
View ArticleChristie’s to Offer Rubens Masterpiece “Lot and his Daughters”
Christie’s has announced that it will offer the Sir Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece “Lot and his Daughters” (circa 1613-1614) as the centerpiece of its Class Week sales in London where it will lead the...
View ArticleDeath, Destruction, Ruins and Revolution: Hubert Robert at the Louvre
The Louvre can claim something of a first with its huge exhibition on Hubert Robert, one of the most prolific artists of the 18th century.It is the first show of such magnitude devoted to the artist....
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