Performing Arts
Five hundred years ago, this artist and scientist could portray the human mystery with a wonder that is not religious but biological he holds up humanity as a fact of nature. The opinion of the Masterpiece Vetting Committees is given …
The marquesa wrote to da Vinci to ask for a painting from the sketch. Until recently, art experts assumed he never found the time to complete the painting or simply lost interest in it. Miss Preston had first spotted the …
Michelangelo was just 25 years-old when he presented this life-sized sculpture of the Virgin Mary holdings Jesus Christ in Rome’s St. Peter’s Basilica, in 1500. He had observed dead bodies as a teenager, and that may explain the realism in …
It’s now believed that Trachte forged the painting around 1973 during a bitter divorce. Although the painting remained hidden, he was awarded the Rockwell in the divorce settlement. At first, the experts assumed the painting had been preserved poorly and …
The pigments and primer are the same as the ones used by da Vinci. Also, da Vinci is believed to have met d’Este at the Vatican in 1514. Some experts think he may have completed the painting there. But other …
The fresco has survived two wartime threats — Napoleon’s troops used the wall of the refectory on which the fresco was painted as target practice. It also was exposed to the air for several years when bombing during World War …
As the old saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. So when a Virginia woman claimed to have purchased the napkin-sized Renoir painting On the Shore of the Seine for $7 in 2009 at …
“There are no doubts that the portrait is the work of Leonardo,” he said. Pedretti believes da Vinci painted the face, and da Vinci’s assistants painted a palm leaf held by d’Este in the painting. Barki believes the buyer from …