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Mona Lisa’s eyes: should we feel individuals Da Vinci tales?

Posted on May 3, 2011 by admin

Leonardo da Vinci may have died in 1519, but he’s forever in news reviews. To have an excellentsoe might be the finet whatever person ded. l, the amount of news that might be created of a extended-dead polymath is startling. I like Leonardo tales %u2013 usually %u2013 but one of the current crop really annoys me.

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Quentin Blake drawings auctioned to raise money for illustration museum

Posted on April 21, 2011 by admin

Original drawings from the creators of some of the best loved children’s books of all time, including Quentin Blake and Eric Carle, have gone on public display for the first time before an auction at Sotheby’s on Thursday to raise funds for a permanent £6.5m museum of illustration in London.

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Leonardo da Vinci painting is put at risk by loan from Poland to London

Posted on April 2, 2011 by admin

One of the world’s finest paintings might not survive the journey to London for the National Gallery’s blockbuster Leonardo da Vinci exhibition next year, according to a group of Polish experts fighting to keep the Renaissance masterpiece at home.

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Stubbs painting expected to fetch record £15m at auction

Posted on March 14, 2011 by admin

A painting of mares and foals, which has been in the same family collection since George Stubbs painted it in 1768, is expected to set a new record for the artist’s work of up to £15m when auctioned at Sotheby’s next week.

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Works by Van Gogh and Hockney mark London gallery’s 200th birthday

Posted on March 1, 2011 by admin

As birthday presents go, they are quite something: 12 of the most jaw-dropping paintings in any gallery anywhere, courtesy of institutions across Europe and the US including the Uffizi, Prado and Met.

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Auf wiedersehen Britart: Germany wins when it comes to art

Posted on February 15, 2011 by admin

Which country leads Europe in contemporary art? Britain, of course, you answer. Look at all those people flocking to Tate Modern. Wrong. The best artists in Europe today are German. The towering geniuses Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer radically contrast in how they conceive art yet both, from their divergent perspectives, one super-cool, the other romantic, achieve a profundity that makes most British art look trite.

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‘Jesuit priest’ forger has fooled US museums for more than 20 years

Posted on February 1, 2011 by admin

Museum curators are warning of a mysterious man posing as a Jesuit priest who is suspected of duping American institutions with brilliantly forged artworks over the past 20 years.

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Painting the poll tax riots: did John Bartlett get it right?

Posted on January 21, 2011 by admin

History Painting is on permanent view in the recently relaunched modern galleries of the Museum of London. We went there a while ago and, while our child examined souvenirs of 50s children’s television, my wife and I couldn’t help exchanging ironic glances. The scene of mayhem it depicts is one historical event we were at.