Meet Charley Hill, the legendary bloodhound who has retrieved stolen masterpieces the world over. Most notably, Edvard Munch’s The Scream, taken from the National Gallery of Norway in 1994 and rescued by Charley from the basement of a summer house in Oslo Fjord. “The art world enables me to see the worst in everyone—myself and […]
Caravaggio becomes a comic strip antihero
It seems you haven’t really made it as an artist until there’s a comic book about you. Caravaggio is the latest to have joined the ranks of artists, including Egon Schiele, Hokusai and Frieda Kahlo, immortalised in the so-called ninth art with a new comic book by Milo Manara, published by the French house Glénat. […]
Caravaggio’s St Augustine: Whitfield Fine Art Research the Discovery of Caravaggio’s Original
LONDON.- The Caravaggio of St Augustine, exhibited for the first time in the current exhibition in Ottawa, Caravaggio & His Followers in Rome, is a rediscovery from the collection made by the artist’s patrons Cardinal Benedetto Giustiniani and his…
Speed Art Museum will Bring Caravaggio’s "The Fortune Teller" to the United States this May
LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum announced today that it will bring Caravaggio’s pivotal work, The Fortune Teller, to the United States this May. The painting rarely travels and this will mark only the second time the work has ever been on vi…
Vittorio Sgarbi Returns to Museo Diocesano to Present Major New Caravaggio Exhibition
MILAN.- Vittorio Sgarbi returns to Milan to present a major new exhibition that illustrates the birth of the genius Caravaggio. Reconstructing his artistic training, from Simone Peterzano to the Veneto and Lombard masters, this fascinating show examine…
Art and Archives Make Up Caravaggio Show at Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza Church in Rome
ROME (AP).- Art lovers will get rare glimpses of Caravaggio’s often violent life in an exhibit in Rome and combining centuries-old documents from archives as well as paintings, including a portrait last seen in public 100 years ago. Sant’Ivo alla Sap…
The Last Work by the Renowned Italian Master Caravaggio at Rembrandt House Museum
AMSTERDAM.- The Rembrandt House Museum is exhibiting an almost unknown painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio (1571-1610) from 3 December 2010 to 13 February 2011. St John the Baptist Reclining comes from a foreign private collection and has increas…
The Last Work by the Renowned Italian Master Caravaggio at Rembrandt House Museum
AMSTERDAM.- The Rembrandt House Museum is exhibiting an almost unknown painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio (1571-1610) from 3 December 2010 to 13 February 2011. St John the Baptist Reclining comes from a foreign private collection and has increas…
Gemäldegalerie Celebrates 400th Anniversary of Caravaggio’s Death with Exhibition
BERLIN.- Two paintings by Caravaggio can be found in German collections: the Gemäldegalerie’s ‘Amor Vincit Omnia’ (or ‘Amor Victorious’) and ‘Doubting Thomas’ in the Picture Gallery at Schloss Sanssouci. Both paintings were created for the marchese Vi…
From Panini to Zandomeneghi in the Milan Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Sales
MILAN.- 82 lots devoted to Old Master works on sale at Sotheby’s Milan on 16th November 2010. The selection shows among first lots a big oil on canvas of the Florentine painter Matteo Rosselli which figures the Sacrificio di Isacco. Rosselli durin…