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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, December 19, 2013

Thirteen artworks stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.

FBI Closes in on Gardner Museum Heist Thieves
ArtfixDaily Staff - December 18th, 2013 21:43

After 23 years and thousands of leads, the FBI says that they know who stole 13 masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. New developments...

George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879) Boatmen on the Missouri, 1846. Oil on canvas. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III

Amon Carter Museum of American Art Receives NEA Grant to Support George Caleb Bingham Exhibition
Release Date: 18 December 2013
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa recently announced that the Amon Carter Museum of American Art is one of 895 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. The Amon Carter is recommended for a $70,000 grant to support the exhibition ...

Vajradhâtu màndala, Tibet, 11th century. Distemper on cotton. 125 x 125 cm. Rossi & Rossi Stand no. 166 at TEFAF Maastricht 2014.

Rossi & Rossi to Offer Earliest Known Tibetan Mandala at TEFAF Maastricht 2014
Release Date: 18 December 2013
What is probably the earliest known Tibetan màndala and a masterpiece of Mongolian art are among the major Asian works of art to be exhibited by Rossi & Rossi at TEFAF Maastricht at the Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre (MECC) from 14 to 23 March 2014, Stand 166. Rossi & Rossi specialise ...

Agnolo Gaddi, "Saint Ursula", ca. 1388-1393. Egg tempera on wood. SBMA, Gift of Mr. Arthur Sachs.

Religious Images of the Christian East
Release Date: 19 November 2013
Portraits of Jesus Christ, His mother and His saints invoke the presence of God, to whom every Christian prayer is addressed. Before the Reformation, such images were habitually used by believers all over Europe, both in church and in private. The custom of painting them on wood originated in ...

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