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Yorkshire Museum buys medieval Limoges crucifix figure at auction for 8,500 euros

An incredible medieval crucifix of copper alloy by the craftsmen of Limoges, which returned a couple of years ago to York, where it was long kept in St Mary's Abbey, now no more. The Yorkshire Museum bought the figure at auction for 8,500 euros. For more than

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Leonardo da Vinci Wishes You a Good Start to the New Working Week

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Sentences passed on those behind the theft of Cattelan's golden toilet from Blenheim Palace

Participants in the theft of the golden lavatory have been sentenced. The landmark work by Maurizio Cattelan, the very Italian-American who taped a banana to a wall, entitled "America", was stolen straight out of a museum in 2019. At around five o'clock on the morning

Medieval miniature: a crowned, winged Fortune turns a golden wheel with a king seated on top and courtiers falling from the sides.

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The Wheel of Fortune in a 15th-century edition of Boccaccio's “Lives of Famous Men and Women”

The Wheel of Fortune in a 15th-century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's "On the Fates of Illustrious Men and Women" is shown as a carousel, with a king seated at the very top while courtiers go flying off the rickety side seats

Archaeology · Art · Museums · Rome

Bronze Boxer with Copper Inlays Found on the Quirinal Hill in Rome in 1885

In the spring of 1885, a magnificent bronze sculpture of a resting boxer was found during excavations on the Quirinal Hill in Rome. The most interesting thing is that, unlike many finds from antiquity, this sculpture was originally hidden on purpose. Its excellent state of preservation is explained precisely by

Art · Society · Paris

Two antiques dealers found guilty in France of selling forged 18th-century chairs

Two French antiques experts and furniture makers, Georges Pailhaud and Bruno Desnoues, have been found guilty. The dealers stood accused of forging and selling nine copies of eighteenth-century armchairs, which they passed off as genuine. Some of the pieces were represented as having belonged to Marie Antoinette. The swindlers

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Torso, 1st century BC, from the collection of Pierluigi Farnese in the National Gallery in Parma

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Those eyes opposite, or rather the metal dots where the eyes should be, on the saint's bas-relief in Modena Cathedral

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Trujillo claims works by Kahlo and Rivera were illegally sold at US auctions

Former director of the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City, Hilda Trujillo Soto, accuses the museum's board of trustees of concealing the disappearance of the artist's works. Trujillo claims that during her time at the museum she discovered discrepancies between the inventory of works compiled by

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A small marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin, "Despair", from a private collection, was sold at auction for €1.1 million last weekend

A small marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin, "Despair", from a private collection, was sold at auction for €1.1 million last weekend. It is reported that the owners had no idea of the work's value, taking the sculpture for a copy.

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Karl Bryullov, Study for a Portrait of a Young Woman, 1838

Architecture · Art · London · Museums

New open storage facility displays Picasso's theatre work and a colonnade from Agra

The Victoria and Albert Museum's New Storehouse Opens in London: Exhibits May Be Viewed Up Close and Without Glass, and Almost Any of the Hundreds of Thousands of Objects in Its Holdings Can Be Studied in Detail by Request in a Special Room. Among the notable exhibits are