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Another Rediscovered da Vinci?
ArtfixDaily / December 7th, 2011
A group of art historians, organized by UC San Diego Professor Maurizio Seracini, believe that a lost da Vinci masterpiece is hidden behind a 16th-century fresco created by Giorgio Vasari in the Palazzo Vecchio. They've been given permission to drill...
Two Dozen Sculptures from Cleveland Museum of Art at Auction
Cleveland Plain Dealer / November 8th, 2011
The Cleveland Museum of Art is offering a carefully-considered selection of 24 sculptures from its collections at a Christie's sale in New York on Nov. 22. Mostly 19th-century reproductions of Renaissance-era pieces, the sculptures were deemed by curators as non-essential to the museum's ...
The Story Behind Leonardo's Lost Painting
CNN / October 31st, 2011
Perhaps 15 paintings by Leonardo da Vinci survive today, including the iconic ‘Mona Lisa’ and ‘The Last Supper.’ A newly-authenticated work by the Renaissance master – known as 'Salvator Mundi ' or ‘Saviour of the World’ – has caused a sensation in the art world. It depicts the head ...
Polish Outbuilding Yields 300 Paintings Worth Millions
Telegraph / September 28th, 2011
Police have discovered 300 paintings in a garden outbuilding owned by a 92-year-old former bricklayer in Poland. Primarily consisting of Renaissance and German baroque paintings, the collection was presumably stored since World War II...
German billionaire pays $70 million for Holbein Madonna
Bloomberg / July 17th, 2011
Reinhold Wuerth beat out Frankfurt's Staedel Museum to acquire an important Holbein painting from the collection of an aristocratic family. The German billionaire industrialist paid more than 50 million euros, the highest amount ever...
"Lost Michelangelo" masterpiece worth £100million found in student dorm
Daily Mail / July 14th, 2011
A painting thought to have been by a Michelangelo contemporary could be the work of the Renaissance master himself. The mid-16th century oil has been hanging in a student residence hall at Oxford since the 1930s.
Rediscovered da Vinci painting could hit the market
The Telegraph / July 5th, 2011
'Salvator Mundi,' previously thought to have been painted by a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, is now deemed by international experts to be by the master himself. It could fetch as much as $200 million...
'Fairytale find' of medieval treasure in Austria
Huffington Post / April 23rd, 2011
An Austrian man who was digging in his garden found buried treasure – hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian authorities described Friday as a fairy-tale find.
Louvre appeals to public for €4m acquisition
ArtfixDaily / November 16th, 2010
The Louvre museum in Paris is quite specific when seeking the public's help to achieve fundraising goals. The current appeal is for one million euros to complete the 4 million euros needed to buy Lucas Cranach the Elders's "The Three Graces."
New book claims Michelangelo rediscovered in New York home
Buffalo News / October 12th, 2010
A retired pilot in Western New York state may have unknowingly enjoyed a lost Michelangelo masterpiece in his living room for years. The unfinished painting of the Virgin Mary holding the body of Jesus is certainly by the hand of the Renaissance master, according to art historian Antonio ...
A confluence of international exhibitions points to intensifying interest in Old Master sculpture
ArtfixDaily / October 5th, 2010
With the launch of their first collaborative exhibit Body and Soul: Masterpieces of Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture at Moretti Fine Art, 24 East 80th Street, from October 21 to November 19, Andrew Butterfield and Fabrizio Moretti will join a growing number of important galleries and museums ...
V&A to display Raphael's Sistine tapestries
Telegraph / August 17th, 2010
To mark Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain next month, four glittering tapestries designed by Raphael for the Sistine Chapel will hang, for the first time ever, beside his original designs, or cartoons, in the Victoria & Albert museum. Three years after Michelangelo finished the ...
Raphael masterpiece travels over holidays
ArtfixDaily / August 17th, 2010
The Norton Simon Museum has secured a rare loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. From November 5, 2010, to January 24, 2011, the Pasadena, California, museum will host Raphael’s exquisite The Small Cowper Madonna, c. 1505. This Madonna and Child painting, on loan for the ...
Art fraudster Salander sentenced to up to 18 years
Bloomberg / August 3rd, 2010
Bankrupt Manhattan art dealer Lawrence Salander, 61, was sentenced to 6 to 18 years in prison for grand larceny and fraud by a New York court on Tuesday. Salander, who was arrested in 2009, pleaded guilty to swindling clients out of $120 million. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries filed for bankruptcy ...
Hidden secrets of Old Masters & an American Icon
ArtfixDaily / July 19th, 2010
Longstanding knowledge of a few major artists and artworks may be altered. The Vatican believes it has uncovered a 'new' Caravaggio; French experts have scientifically analyzed da Vinci's painting style; and Thomas Eakins' iconic "The Gross Clinic," perhaps the most important American painting of ...
Richard Feigen art collection on view at Yale University Art Gallery
ArtfixDaily / June 1st, 2010
Art scholar, collector, and dealer Richard L. Feigen, who owns an eponymous art gallery in New York, is sharing his renowned personal art collection for the first time with the public. Yale University Art Gallery is hosting 60 of Feigen's early Italian paintings, considered to be among the finest ...
Likely a Leonardo self-portrait, say experts
Calgary Herald via Montreal Gazette / May 19th, 2010
A dozen scientists and one art historian have concluded that a recently-discovered painting appears to be a Leonardo da Vinci self-portrait. The work was found in 2009 by a medieval historian studying the art collection of a family in Acerenza, a town in southern Italy. After analyzing ...
Italian group crusades for purloined Holy Night painting
Deutsche Welle / May 17th, 2010
Forty years ago, a manger scene, depicting Mary and baby Jesus flanked by saints, painted in 1609 by Caravaggio, was swiped from a Sicilian chapel. Extroart, an art recovery organization founded by Italian Ludovico Gippetto, is focused on finding this Renaissance masterpiece. The painting has ...
Museum mistakes exposed in London show
Guardian / April 20th, 2010
The National Gallery in London will be showing off some embarrassing acquistions and misleading gifts in its major exhibition called Close Examination opening in June. Works once-removed from the gallery's walls for their dubious nature are being exhumed from the vaults. One of the museum's ...
A "new" $230 million Michelangelo at the Met?
Guardian UK / April 15th, 2010
Everett Fahy, former head of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, says a painting long-attributed to the workshop of Francesco Granacci is actually by Michelangelo. Stylistic elements and a look at the underpainting with infrared led Fahy to the conclusion that "Saint John the ...