An exhibition of works from the collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein is backed by a premier league team, but funding amounts have not been revealed. Gareth Harris reports for The Art Newspaper: “A major Italian football club has taken the unusual step of sponsoring… Read More
This handbag is based on an original sketch by Leonardo da Vinci which was found in 1978 (Picture: London Media) Just when you think you have heard it all, Leonardo da Vinci is on the news again. Did anyone knwo that da Vinci was also… Read More
“The restoration of a painting by Rubens from London’s Courtauld Gallery has revealed that the work was probably not a commission, but created for the speculative market,” writes The Art Newspaper. “Cain Slaying Abel, around 1608-09—one of the most significant works by the artist in… Read More
Pietro Perugino was one of the most successful artists of the Italian Renaissance around 1500. Prominent patrons courted his attention even some distance from Florence and Perugia, the centres in which he worked. It was not just the classical harmony and technical skill of his… Read More
Maybe we should start our own Mona Lisa Blog on the side next year… No week passes by without some mad scientist claiming to have found new hidden messages in the Mona Lisa or someone writing a new article about “the true history” of the… Read More
Leonardo da Vinci has become a category on his own and a mayor player in today’s popculture also. Hot on the heels of the smash hit show in London, a new work may have been found or not. “For years – in what is worthy… Read More
“Experts have reclassified a painting of an old man long thought to have been made by one of Rembrandts’ students as having come from the hand of the Dutch master himself, after X-ray analysis revealed outlines of a self-portrait of the artist as a young… Read More
A PAINTING that was once dismissed as a Leonardo Da Vinci forgery has been hailed as genuine by a British expert. Martin Kemp, emeritus professor of art history at Oxford University, said that La Bella Principessa – once deemed to be a 19th century pastiche… Read More
The Gemäldegalerie and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have undertaken a landmark project tracing the development of the Italian portrait in the fifteenth century. In Berlin the event takes place in the beautifully restored Bode-Museum, it is subsequently on view at the… Read More
“The 17th Century Rembrandt sketch stolen from a California hotel at the weekend was recovered at a church about 20 miles (32 km) away, it has emerged. Valued at $250,000 (£153,625), the piece, entitled The Judgement, was taken from an exhibition at the Ritz-Carlton in… Read More
