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Botticelli's "Rockefeller Madonna" on sale at TEFAF
- By Kunstpedia Administrator
- Published 4 March 2010
An exquisitely beautiful study of the young Saint John kneeling in prayer before the Madonna and the infant Christ by Sandro Botticelli is to be offered for sale by the leading international art deale...
The Trade in TEFAF tickets
- By Kunstpedia Administrator
- Published 3 March 2010
Maastricht is preparing its self for the TEFAF, lovers of the fine and decorative arts are in great anticipation what this year will bring us and the tight-fisted Dutch are on the look-out for freebee...
From Yachts to Old Masters - How investment helped the art market weather the economic crisis
- By Kunstpedia Administrator
- Published 27 February 2010
A change in luxury spending habits caused by the recession has helped the international art and antiques market weather the global economic storm. This is revealed by a new report commissioned by The ...
Art & Antique Dealer Website Ranking
- By Kunstpedia Administrator
- Published 26 February 2010
Following the Museum Website Ranking, over 3700 websites of art and antique dealers were analysed. The Top 100 ranking is dominated by dealers based in the United States and the United Kingdom, follow...
Gauguin Tahitian Materpiece on sale at TEFAF
- By Kunstpedia Administrator
- Published 5 February 2010
One of Paul Gauguin’s last major works is to be offered for sale by the leading international art dealer Dickinson for a price in the region of €18 million (US$26 million) at TEFAF Maastricht....
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) highest ranking art museum on the web
- By Kunstpedia Administrator
- Published 1 February 2010
Over 680 websites of art museums have been analysed and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York proved to be the most popular, followed by Metropolitan Museum of Art and Musée du Louvre.The...
Caravaggio's painting Natività destroyed by mice and pigs
- By Kunstpedia Administrator
- Published 21 January 2010
The famous painting Natività con i Santi Lorenzo e Francesco di Assisi (Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francesco), which was stolen over 30 years ago and had an estimated value of € 30 m...
Computer method 'spots art fakes'
- By Kunstpedia Administrator
- Published 6 January 2010
BBC News 4 January 2010A simple method to distinguish artistic fakes and imitations has been demonstrated by researchers.The approach, known as "sparse coding", builds a virtual library of an artist's...
Picasso, other art works stolen from French villa
- By Kunstpedia Administrator
- Published 3 January 2010
MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Thieves have stolen about 30 paintings, including a work by Spanish master Pablo Picasso, from a private villa in the south of France, police said on Saturday.The haul, w...
Catalogue of Rembrandt’s prints and drawings in Polish public collections published
- By Kunstpedia Administrator
- Published 2 January 2010
In 2006, 400 years after Rembrandt's birth an exhibition was held in Warszaw showing his drawings and prints from Polish collections. The accompanying catalogue listed the works shown in the exhibitio...
