PARIS.- A month after the launch of the campaign to acquire Lucas Cranach’s Three Graces, the Louvre has raised 1 million euros from over 5000 donors. This enabled Lucas Cranach’s Three Graces to enter into the Louvre’s collections. The…
Paris Louvre Asks Public for Help to Buy Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Painting "The Three Graces"
PARIS (REUTERS).- France’s Louvre museum is making an unprecedented appeal to the general public to help it raise the cash to buy a 16th century painting deemed a national treasure by art experts. The Louvre has already scraped together 3 million euro…
Paris Louvre Asks Public for Help to Buy Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Painting "The Three Graces"
PARIS (REUTERS).- France’s Louvre museum is making an unprecedented appeal to the general public to help it raise the cash to buy a 16th century painting deemed a national treasure by art experts. The Louvre has already scraped together 3 million euro…
Rare Arcimboldo Painting Acquired by the National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has acquired the Four Seasons in One Head (c. 1590), a rare and important masterpiece by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, on the occasion of the exhibition Arcimboldo, 1526 -1593: Nature and Fantasy, on view in the East…
Rare Arcimboldo Painting Acquired by the National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has acquired the Four Seasons in One Head (c. 1590), a rare and important masterpiece by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, on the occasion of the exhibition Arcimboldo, 1526 -1593: Nature and Fantasy, on view in the East…
Quantitative Chemical Analysis Sheds New Light on Leonardo Da Vinci’s Faces
PARIS.- How did Leonardo Da Vinci manage
to paint
such perfect faces? For the first time a quantitative chemical analysis
has been
done on seven paintings from the Louvre Museum (including the Mona Lisa)
without
extracting any samples. Thi…
Quantitative Chemical Analysis Sheds New Light on Leonardo Da Vinci’s Faces
PARIS.- How did Leonardo Da Vinci manage
to paint
such perfect faces? For the first time a quantitative chemical analysis
has been
done on seven paintings from the Louvre Museum (including the Mona Lisa)
without
extracting any samples. Thi…
Quantitative Chemical Analysis Sheds New Light on Leonardo Da Vinci’s Faces
PARIS.- How did Leonardo Da Vinci manage to paint such perfect faces? For the first time a quantitative chemical analysis has been done on seven paintings from the Louvre Museum (including the Mona Lisa) without extracting any samples. This shows the c…