VENICE.- From September 4 to January 9, 2011 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Adolph Gottlieb. A Retrospective, the first retrospective exhibition of this great American Abstract Expressionist painter to be shown in Italy. Like those previously…
Sergio Cortesini Receives First Annual Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize
WASHINGTON, DC.- Sergio Cortesini of the University of Cassino in Italy has been awarded the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s 2010 Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize. Cortesini was selected by an international review pane…
L’Osservatore Romano Says New Caravaggio May Have Been Found
ROME (AP).- The Vatican newspaper reported Saturday that a new Caravaggio painting may have been found in Rome, but cautioned that further analyses are required before it can be attributed for certain to the Italian master. The front-page story in L’Os…
Italian Police Show Latest Recovery of Looted Art at the Colosseum
ROME (AP).- Italian police have recovered hundreds of ancient artifacts in their latest effort to crack down on the looting of art, and have looted art, and they chose a unique setting to display them Friday: the Colosseum. The 337 pieces displayed in …
16th Century Table, Sold in 1989 for 6,000 Pounds, Estimated Now to Sell for 1 Million
LONDON.- On Tuesday 6th July 2010, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale a remarkable example of 16th-century craftsmanship – an Italian rosewood table, inlaid with ivory and finely engraved. In 1989 this same piece sold at auction for £6,000…
Selection of Original Prints from the Archive of Karl Blossfeldt at Foam
AMSTERDAM.- Foam_Fotografiemuseum
Amsterdam presents a selection of original prints
from the archive of Karl Blossfeldt. Blossfeldt (b. Germany, 1865) was
self-taught and had kept up a keen interest in nature since boyhood. As a
sculptor…
Caravaggio Show Goes Nonstop at Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome
ROME (AP).- Art lovers have been lining up under the stars and the sun as an exhibit of Caravaggio masterpieces goes nonstop for its last days in Rome. After days of seeing the public wait in blocks-long lines in sweltering heat to admire works by the…
Caravaggio Show Goes Nonstop at Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome
ROME (AP).- Art lovers have been lining up under the stars and the sun as an exhibit of Caravaggio masterpieces goes nonstop for its last days in Rome. After days of seeing the public wait in blocks-long lines in sweltering heat to admire works by the…
Caravaggio Show Goes Nonstop at Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome
ROME (AP).- Art lovers have been lining up under the stars and the sun as an exhibit of Caravaggio masterpieces goes nonstop for its last days in Rome. After days of seeing the public wait in blocks-long lines in sweltering heat to admire works by the…
Caravaggio Show Goes Nonstop at Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome
ROME (AP).- Art lovers have been lining up under the stars and the sun as an exhibit of Caravaggio masterpieces goes nonstop for its last days in Rome. After days of seeing the public wait in blocks-long lines in sweltering heat to admire works by the…