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Cimabue Masterpiece Found in French Kitchen Fetches $26.6 Million
SFgate / October 28th, 2019
A 13th century work by Italian master Cimabue, rediscovered in a French kitchen earlier this year, brought 24 million euros ($26.6 million) at auction on Sunday. Dominique Le Coent of Acteon Auction House said the sale represented a "world record for a primitive, or a pre-1500 work." It was ...
A Renaissance Woman Artist's 'Last Supper' Is Unveiled
ArtfixDaily / October 17th, 2019
Revealed this week after a multiyear restoration, an artist-nun's masterwork is now on public view at the Santa Maria Novella Museum in Florence some 450 years after it was created. The only known Last Supper by a female artist in the modern age, Plautilla Nelli’s 21-foot canvas is ...
MIT Engineers Prove Leonardo da Vinci Was a Master...at Bridge Design
ArtfixDaily / October 10th, 2019
Some 500 years after his death, Leonardo da Vinci is still well-known as a Renaissance master artist and prolific inventor. MIT engineers have also just proven his engineering prowess in bridge design. In 1502, da Vinci submitted an innovative bridge design for a contest to connect ...
Hidden for 450 Years, A Renaissance Woman Artist's Version of 'The Last Supper' to be Unveiled Next Month
Guardian / September 29th, 2019
2019 is the widely publicized 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death and major museums are noting the great Renaissance master's genius with exhibitions, including the reservations-only blockbuster at the Louvre opening on October 24. The Paris show will have, after intense negotiations, ...
'Mocking of Christ': Cimabue's $6 Million Masterpiece Is Rediscovered in French Woman's Kitchen
CNN / September 24th, 2019
A long-lost work by 13th century Florentine master Cenni di Pepo, known as Cimabue (active 1272-1302), has been found to be hanging over a kitchen hot plate in France. Cimabue's "Mocking of Christ" could bring around 6 million Euros ($6.59 million) at auction next month, according ...
Extreme Heat Further Threatens Notre Dame, Architect Says
CNN / July 25th, 2019
A heat wave that has embroiled Europe all week could cause the fire-damaged parts of Notre Dame to collapse, according to Chief Architect Philippe Villeneuve. "I am very worried about the heat wave because, as you know, the Cathedral suffered from the fire, the beams coming down, but also ...
Leonardo’s Legacy: Francesco Melzi and the Leonardeschi
ArtfixDaily / June 3rd, 2019
The National Gallery in London is marking the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death with a display presenting the exceptional loan (now through June 23, 2019) of the recently restored 'Flora' by Francesco Melzi from the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. The painting is ...
Louvre Closes Due to Staff Strike Over 'Untenable' Situation; Plus, No 'Salvator Mundi' Appearance Ahead
NPR / May 28th, 2019
On Monday, the Louvre shut its doors after security and reception staff went on strike, protesting "unprecedented deterioration of conditions." In recent years, attendance numbers at the Paris museum have swelled. "The Louvre is suffocating," the Sud Culture Solidaires Union said in a ...
Researchers Discover Way to Fight The Bacteria That Ruins Paintings
Fast Company / December 12th, 2018
Besides sunlight, heat, humidity and other factors, paintings face deterioration over time because of bacteria. A group of Italian researchers now says that old paintings can be better preserved by adding more bacteria to the mix. They discovered that some bacterial spores will fight the bad ...
Jerry Saltz Has A Brutal Theory On Why the World's Most Expensive Painting Is "Missing"
Vice / December 7th, 2018
Critic Jerry Saltz explains "Why the World's Most Expensive Painting Has Gone Missing" in a Vice video here. While we're assuming "missing" equates to "out of public view," Saltz claims the reason is that the $450 million Leonardo da Vinci titled "Salvator Mundi" is a "made up piece of ...
Louvre Abu Dhabi Delays Display of Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi
BBC / September 4th, 2018
In a surprise announcement, Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism says the unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi"---the world's most expensive painting---will be indefinitely delayed at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The painting was sold for a record $450.3 million at a ...
Appeal Filed in Case of Contested Cranach Paintings
Pasadena Star-News / August 14th, 2018
The long-running legal dispute between a California museum and the heir of a Jewish Dutch art dealer continues over ownership of two 16th century masterpieces. The life-size paintings of Adam and Eve by German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder belong to her family, argues Marei ...
Scholar Claims Leonardo's $450 Million Painting Was Largely Done by Another Artist
CNN / August 8th, 2018
In a newly revised book titled "Leonardo da Vinci," due out next month, a scholar makes his case for the world's most expensive painting to be not solely created by the master himself, but by another hand. From CNN: Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi," the world's most expensive painting, ...
SF Court Rules for Norton Simon Museum to Keep Nazi-Looted Paintings
SFGate / July 30th, 2018
In a long running case, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that a Southern California museum can keep a pair of prized 16th century paintings that an heiress of a Dutch art dealer has sought since the 1990s. The Renaissance paintings were looted by the Nazis during World War II, and the court ...
20 Pieces for Chippendale’s Tercentenary Plus New Work by Marina Abramović Among Highlights of Masterpiece London 2018
ArtfixDaily / June 6th, 2018
The Masterpiece London 2018 edition, which runs from June 28 - July 4 at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, will present an array of art from the 18th-century carved creations of Thomas Chippendale to the debut of new forms of work by famed performance artist Marina Abramović. With Thomas ...
U.S. Investigation into Art Dealer Fizzles After $450 Million Da Vinci Sale
Bloomberg / May 29th, 2018
When Leonardo da Vinci's ethereal "Salvator Mundi" sold for a record-smashing $450 million last fall, a year-long federal investigation into a Swiss art dealer's mark-ups of artworks sold to a Russian billionaire seems to have evaporated. A longstanding dispute between fertilizer magnate ...
Artwork from La Salle University Collection Hits the Auction Block
The Inquirer / April 18th, 2018
Philadelphia's La Salle University is unloading a trove of 46 American and European artworks from its museum collections through Christie's in a series of sales beginning in New York this week. School trustees say the sale proceeds will fund initiatives from La Salle University’s five-year ...
Hearst Castle Tour Guides Help Identify Artist of 17th-Century Painting
San Luis Obispo / March 7th, 2018
Two tour guides at the historic castle built by media mogul William Randolph Hearst have helped unravel the mystery of attribution behind a 17th century artwork in the museum's collection. On a tour, a ray of sunshine illuminated a previously unnoticed or overlooked monogram and inscription on ...
Michelangelo's Tuscan Villa Is Still For Sale
Travel + Leisure / February 14th, 2018
If you missed the once-in-a-lifetime Michelangelo exhibition at the Met this winter, which drew some 700,000 visitors, there is another chance to get close to the Italian Renaissance master. Villa Michelangelo, the ten-bedroom "farmhouse" that the artist bought in 1549 is seeking a new owner, ...
The Louvre Displays Nazi-Looted Art in Restitution Effort
CNN / January 31st, 2018
The Louvre Museum has opened an exhibit of artworks that were once seized by the Nazis during their occupation of France. Some 31 French-owned paintings are shown in an effort to reconnect the works of art with the heirs of their rightful owners. Each artwork is documented in ...