By: Madeleine Cowley
LONDON (REUTERS).- Hundreds of butterflies are emerging from chrysalises, taking flight, sipping aphrodisiac and delighting children at London’s Natural History Museum just in time for the Easter and summer school holidays. The “Se…
Last Supper was on Wednesday, not Thursday, Says Cambridge Professor Colin Humphreys
LONDON (REUTERS).- The Last Supper took place on a Wednesday — a day earlier than thought — and a date for Easter can now be fixed, according to a Cambridge University scientist aiming to solve one of the Bible’s most enduring contradictions. Christi…
Bodies Found from London’s Old Bedlam Hospital
By: Stefano Ambrogi
LONDON (REUTERS).- Archaeologists have unearthed hundreds of skeletons at a 16th Century burial ground in the heart of the city that once served London’s most notorious psychiatric hospital, the original “Bedlam.” The bones are expe…
Nazi Warplane, Thought to Be World’s Last Known Example, Lying Off UK Coast is Intact
LONDON (REUTERS).- A rare World War Two German bomber, shot down over the English Channel in 1940 and hidden for years by shifting sands at the bottom of the sea, is so well preserved a British museum wants to raise it. The Dornier 17 — thought to be …
Christie’s Backs Stubbs to Join Old Masters Elite, Painting Expected to Fetch $33 Million
LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie’s will offer a George Stubbs horse painting for sale in London on July 5 and expects it to make more than 20 million pounds ($33 million), potentially putting it in the Old Masters auction elite. “Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath…
Christie’s Backs Stubbs to Join Old Masters Elite, Painting Expected to Fetch $33 Million
LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie’s will offer a George Stubbs horse painting for sale in London on July 5 and expects it to make more than 20 million pounds ($33 million), potentially putting it in the Old Masters auction elite. “Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath…
$24 Million Donation Secures Francisco de Zurbaran Works for the United Kingdom
LONDON (REUTERS).- A series of portraits by 17th century Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbaran hanging in Auckland Castle, northeast England, have been saved from the auction block by a 15 million pound ($24 million) donation. Investment manager Jonat…
Christie’s in London to Sell Portrait by British Artist Lucian Freud, Eye on Russian Market
LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie’s auctioneers will offer a portrait by Lucian Freud which it described as “seminal” in the career of the British artist at a sale in London on June 28. “Woman Smiling,” painted in 1958/9, is the only single portrait Freud ma…
$24 Million Donation Secures Zurbaran Works for the United Kingdom
LONDON (REUTERS).- A series of portraits by 17th century Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbaran hanging in Auckland Castle, northeast England, have been saved from the auction block by a 15 million pound ($24 million) donation. Investment manager Jonat…
Author Jeffrey Archer to Auction Works of Art from His Collection at Christie’s in June
LONDON (REUTERS).- British author and former parliamentarian Jeffrey Archer expects to raise over 5 million pounds ($8 million) when he sells works from his art collection including paintings by Claude Monet and Andy Warhol. “I recently celebrated my 7…