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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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 | Blitzed Delaroche masterpiece found after 70 years
Times Online - November 25th, 2009 00:16
A German bomb devastated Bridgewater House, home of the Earls of Ellesmere and their magnificent art collection, on May 11, 1941. Torn in 200 places by shrapnel and thought to be ruined, a monumental French painting was rolled up for decades-long storage at the owner's country house. But experts recently tracked down and dusted off Paul Delaroche’s masterful "Charles I Insulted by Cromwell’s Soldiers" for a major show at London's National Gallery in February.Read more | |
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 | Actress reveals all for a museum cause
IMDb - November 24th, 2009 22:15
English-born actress Kim Catrall shed her clothes last year to recreate Titian's "Diana and Actaeon" in a bid to raise awareness of the British National Gallery's campaign to stop the artwork being sold off to a private foreign bidder. The sexy reenactment helped boost the £80 million needed to buy the piece on behalf of Britain. Now Cattrall will pose naked again to help keep the painter's "Diana and Callisto" canvas in Edinburgh.Read more | |
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 | Football player's collection of children's literature up for sale
ABC News - November 24th, 2009 21:47
A copy of "Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There" (est. $100,000-150,000) that belonged to the British girl who inspired author Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" will be offered by Los Angeles-based Profiles in History. The Dec. 16 auction also includes a Beatrix Potter-owned copy of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," estimated at $80,000-120,000. Both items are from the collection of former Cincinnati Bengals football player Pat McInally.Read more | |
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 | Google to post Iraq's national museum collection online
Reuters - November 24th, 2009 21:09
Google is putting 14,000 images of ancient artifacts at Iraq's National Museum online, part of a U.S. bid to entice foreign firms to invest in Iraq, and to help document the collection after widespread looting. The Baghdad museum's millennia-old artifacts from Babylonian, Assyrian and Sumerian cultures, as well as Iraq's more recent history, have been largely closed to public view since the invasion. Google employees took the photos and aim to put them online in early 2010.Read more | |
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 | COLOURFUL DARKNESS - BENCHUNG
Release Date: 10 November 2009
Colourful Darkness, an exhibition of new works by Tibetan artist Benchung, will be staged by Rossi & Rossi at their gallery at 16 Clifford Street, Mayfair, London W1, from Wednesday 2 December 2009 to Saturday 16 January 2010. This will be the tenth in the gallery’s well-received ...Read more | |
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