WARSAW (AP).- It’s finally been decided: Poland’s most precious painting, “Lady with an Ermine” by Leonardo da Vinci, will be allowed to travel to Spain, Germany and Britain. Wednesday’s decision came after almost a year of discussion by art experts an…
The Collection Of Sir Daniel Donohue for Sale at Bonhams & Butterfields In Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams announces the upcoming sales of the Collection of Sir Daniel Donohue. The extraordinary Collection is that of a true antiquarian, a manner that is rarely seen today. The offering is all encompassing and features more than 1,00…
The Collection Of Sir Daniel Donohue for Sale at Bonhams & Butterfields In Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams announces the upcoming sales of the Collection of Sir Daniel Donohue. The extraordinary Collection is that of a true antiquarian, a manner that is rarely seen today. The offering is all encompassing and features more than 1,00…
Bulgarian Mogul Vasil Bozhkov Exhibits His Thracian Collection at the National History Museum in Bulgaria
SOFIA (REUTERS).- Bulgarian mogul Vasil Bozhkov is opening up his private collection of rare Thracian artefacts, offering a glimpse of a little-known ancient civilization which has left no written records. “Thrace and the Ancient World” runs until June…
Exhibitors Bring their Greatest Works to the World’s Most Influential Art Fair: TEFAF
MAASTRICHT.- Exhibitors at TEFAF Maastricht put their finest works of art to one side to bring to the world’s most influential art and antiques fair. Sometimes tracking them down has involved specialist knowledge and skilled detective work while i…
Scuderie del Quirinale Shows Works by Lorenzo Lotto for the First Time in Rome
ROME.- Following the major monographic exhibitions devoted to Lorenzo Lotto in Venice in 1953 and in Bergamo, Paris and Washington in 1998, the Scuderie del Quirinale presents, for the very first time here in Rome, an exhibition covering the entire art…
Text that Shaped the Course of History, The Book of Calculation, for Sale at Bonhams
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Key parts of the Liber Abaci, the work that shaped the course of history by introducing Arabic numerals to the west, are to be sold at Bonhams New York on 22 June. They feature in a rare 15th century manuscript estimated at between $120…
3-D: Focus on the Figure Sculpture Exhibition Opens at the Flint Institute of Arts
FLINT, MI.- The exhibition 3-D: Focus on the Figure open from December 18 at the Flint Institute of Arts and continues through January 30, 2011. Artists have been inspired, throughout the history of art, to celebrate the human form using a variety of m…
Restored Masterpiece on View in New Installation at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Filippino Lippi (1457-1504) is one of the great artists of 15th-century Florence. Among his principal patrons was the wealthy banker Filippo Strozzi (1428–1491), who in 1487 contracted the artist to decorate his funerary chapel in …
Restored Renaissance Masterpiece on View in New Installation at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Filippino Lippi (1457-1504) is one of the great artists of 15th-century Florence. Among his principal patrons was the wealthy banker Filippo Strozzi (1428–1491), who in 1487 contracted the artist to decorate his funerary chapel in …