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Celebrating Raphael’s Birthday: What Conservators Found Hidden Under the Hidden Unicorn in Raphael’s Painting of St Catherine.
On April 6th, we celebrate the Raphae’s birthday, one of the greatest masters of the Italian Renaissance: Born in 1483 in ...
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Forgotten Work at French Museum Attributed to Renaissance Painter Lavinia Fontana
A painting sitting in storage at a provincial museum in northern France was recently reattributed to Lavinia Fontana, one of the foremost female painters of the Italian Renaissance. The painting in ...
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Renaissance Painting Once Found in a Plastic Bag at a Bus Stop Could Sell for $32 Million at Auction
PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo The painting, "Rest on the Flight into Egypt," by Italian Renaissance artist Titian could fetch almost $32 million when it goes to auction in July The artwork was ...
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Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table
Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering ... Dalla Ragione assesses a Renaissance painting, she doesn’t immediately notice the ...
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‘A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting’ Review: A Pivotal Pre-Renaissance Painter
1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades after his death, Dante praised him in “Purgatory.” Two centuries later, Giorgio Vasari pronoun ...
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Contested Roman Villa With Caravaggio’s Only Ceiling Mural Could Become a Museum
A years-long inheritance battle between an American-born princess and her stepsons could soon reach a happy ending for the ...
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French museum uncovers in storage picture by Renaissance woman master
Lavinia Fontana, who lived from 1552-1614, is seen as one of the very first women to make a career out of painting in Western art, and an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance ...
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A painting stolen from an Italian museum is found in England, but its new owner wants to keep it
Antonio Calanni / AP A 16th-century painting stolen more than 50 years ago has been found — and is now at the center of a custody battle between a widow in England and a small Italian museum.
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A painting stolen from an Italian museum is found in England, but its new owner wants to keep it
The 16th-century painting "Madonna and Child" by Italian painter Antonio Solari that was stolen more than 50 years ago and it is now at the center of a custody battle between a widow in England ...