A-once-in-a-lifetime find of a Leonardo da Vinci sculpture was unveiled to the world at a private event at the historic Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills California. Made from the mold of a beeswax statue dating back over 500 years, the sculpture has been authenticated to… Read More
To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen, ten of Leonardo da Vinci’s finest drawings in the Royal Collection will tour to five venues across the UK. They have been selected to reflect Leonardo’s use of different media and the extraordinary range of… Read More
A Norwegian art gallery lost a Rembrandt etching worth up to $8,600 in the mail after trying to save money on courier and insurance costs, the gallery’s chief said on Thursday. The Soli Brug Gallery in Greaaker, about 80 kilometers south of Oslo, purchased a… Read More
Or is it just a clever promotion stunt for a book? Nobody seems to have really researched the news for more than two minutes and here at ikono labs we have some serious doubts. The story goes like this: “For years it sat on a… Read More
Five hundred years have passed since the summer of 1512, when Pope Julius II commissioned to a young Raphael the altarpiece for the monastery church of San Sisto, in the northern Italian city of Piacenza. The result of the commission is Raphael’s masterpiece known as… Read More
Join international scholars to explore the pivotal decade of the 1490s in Florence and the formation and evolution of the young Michelangelo. Prompted by the recent loan by the French Republic to the Metropolitan Museum of the fragmentary marble statue Young Archer that many scholars… Read More
An early religious painting by Goya is to be sold in Zurich next month after hanging for 80 years unrecognised. The Telegraph reports that “an early religious painting by Goya, which hung for more than 80 years unrecognised in a private collection, has been discovered… Read More
Archaeologists have found a skeleton they believe belonged to Lisa Gherardini, the woman who posed for Leonardo da Vinci’s painting. The remains were uncovered in a crypt beneath an altar at the Convent of St. Orsola in Florence. Da Vinci’s famous painting is thought to… Read More
The Teylers Museum in Harlem in the Netherlands has revealed that it owns three more works by Raphael than had previously been thought, bringing its tally up to 12. The museum is preparing a major Raphael exhibition due to open on 28 September (until 6… Read More
Considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history.His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age. Rembrandt’s success in his early years was as a portrait painter to… Read More
