LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: Still Life, a survey of some of the innovative ways photographers have explored and refreshed this traditional genre, on view at the Getty Center in the Center for Photographs from September…
John Singer Sargent’s Sea Paintings Focus of UK Show
LONDON (REUTERS).- U.S. artist John Singer Sargent was best known for his society portraits of subjects ranging from European beauties to U.S. presidents, which earned him comparisons to 17th century Flemish master Anthony van Dyck. But “Sargent and th…
Los Angeles Show has Largest Traveling Exhibit of Mummies
LOS ANGELES (AP).- A 10-month-old baby who lived in Peru 6,420 years ago and a 17th-century nobleman; a South American woman with a tattoo on each breast and one on her face, a woman who had tuberculosis, a child who had a heart condition and a youngst…
Colonial Painting Found in Palacio de Bellas Artes Restored
MEXICO CITY.- Specialists of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) restored 40 square meters of a 17th century mural painting discovered in the subsoil of Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City, during reconditioning work conducted…
British, Dutch and Flemish Masters to Lead Sotheby’s 2010 Summer Sale
LONDON.- Sotheby’s summer Evening Sale of
Old
Master and British Paintings in London will take place on Wednesday,
July 7,
2010 and taking centre stage will be J.M.W. Turner’s breathtaking
masterpiece
Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino. The s…
British, Dutch and Flemish Masters to Lead Sotheby’s 2010 Summer Sale
LONDON.- Sotheby’s summer Evening Sale of Old Master and British Paintings in London will take place on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 and taking centre stage will be J.M.W. Turner’s breathtaking masterpiece Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino. The sale wil…
Stolen $100 Million Dollar Caravaggio Recovered in Berlin
BERLIN
— A Caravaggio painting stolen from a museum in Odessa in the Ukraine
two years
ago was recovered by police as four men tried to sell it in Berlin,
official
said Monday. Police confiscated the 17th-century painting — known as …
Cabinets from Palazzo Featured in Film the Talented Mr. Ripley to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- A pair of rare North Italian 18th century bureau-cabinets from Palazzo Costaguti on Piazza Mattei in Rome are to be sold as part of the Fine Continental Furniture, Sculpture and Works of Art sale on 7 July 2010. These fine examples of bureau-c…
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Presents Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro
HOUSTON, TX.-Photographer Ishimoto Yasuhiro (b. 1921) is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential figures in the development of postwar Japanese photography. Among his most celebrated bodies of work are the photographs he took during 1953-54 …
"Hidden" Jacopo Tintoretto Goes on Public Display for the First Time
DORSET, UK – A hidden painting by Jacopo Tintoretto,
the last of the three great Venetian Renaissance painters, has gone on
public
display for the first time and can be seen at Kingston Lacy 17th-century
house in
Dorset. The …