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Remembering Antiquity: The Ancient World Through Medieval Eyes
- January 29, 2017
The arts and culture of the Middle Ages were the inheritors of a rich classical tradition. For more than a millennium following the fall of Rome, antiquity was evoked and preserved through visual ...
![Sandro Botticelli and workshop, Venere (Venus) [HALF BODY DETAIL], Oil on canvas, transferred from wood panel, Galleria Sabauda, Turin, inv. 172.](/images/cache/Venus_half-body625x535.jpg "Sandro Botticelli and workshop, Venere (Venus) [HALF BODY DETAIL], Oil on canvas, transferred from wood panel, Galleria Sabauda, Turin, inv. 172.")
Botticelli Venus Painting on View for First Time in United States
- January 23, 2017
Botticelli and the Search for the Divine: Florentine Painting between the Medici and the Bonfires of the Vanities To Open Feb. 11 at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary One of only ...
Bronze Hippo Ballerina makes her NYC Debut this Feb 7 - July 31
- January 03, 2017
Standing over 15 feet tall, weighing over 2 and a half tons, cast in bronze, and clad in a copper tutu, Hippo Ballerina, 2016, by Danish artist Bjørn Okholm Skaarup, will be making her Broadway ...
Bountiful and Beautiful: Skinner’s January Fine Art Auctions Feature Fresh-to-Market Works
- Skinner, Inc.
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- January 05, 2017
BOSTON, MA – Skinner, Inc. presents an outstanding two-session auction on Friday, January 27 in its Boston gallery. Fine Prints & Photographs starts at 12PM, followed by Fine Paintings & ...
WINTER ANTIQUES SHOW ADDS DESIGNER STAR POWER WITH ANNOUNCEMENT OF 2017 HONORARY DESIGN CHAIRS
- January 03, 2017
The Winter Antiques Show has enlisted some of the brightest stars in the world of interior design to be the Show’s Honorary Design Chairs: Jamie Drake and Caleb Anderson, Celerie Kemble, and ...
Carlyle Galleries Presents: “Old Masters, Impressionist & Modern Art” Auction Online - Thursday, December 22, 2016
- Carlyle Galleries International, Inc.
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- December 13, 2016
Beverly Hills, California - December 13, 2016 - Carlyle Galleries International, Inc., (www.carlyle-auctions.com) the online fine art dealers and auctioneers, is hosting their next auction: “Old ...
Retired Doctor Uncovers 'Lost' Leonardo da Vinci Drawing
- December 12, 2016
A retired French doctor was the unknowing owner of a lost work by Leonardo da Vinci. Last March, he brought the inherited piece into a Parisian auction house who consulted experts, coming to the ...
New Viking Attraction in Stockholm Aims for Historical Accuracy
- November 30, 2016
In spring 2017, a new permanent global attraction with a Viking theme will open in Stockholm's Djurgården– a long-awaited tourist venture on the island that is already packed with wonderful ...
![Illuminations could be cut from manuscripts and sold as individual works. [Crucifixion Scene, extracted from illuminated manuscript, ca. 1300-1350, Italy; Gift of Rachel Weller and Allen S. Weller 2003-4-4. Courtesy of Krannert Art Museum.]](/images/cache/NOv4_jesus615x650.jpg "Illuminations could be cut from manuscripts and sold as individual works. [Crucifixion Scene, extracted from illuminated manuscript, ca. 1300-1350, Italy; Gift of Rachel Weller and Allen S. Weller 2003-4-4. Courtesy of Krannert Art Museum.]")
Krannert Art Museum show brings together medieval manuscript collections
- November 04, 2016
Medieval artisans created manuscripts adorned with intricate, colorful hand-drawn illustrations and embellished with gold leaf. Some of those images have since been cut from books, leaving the ...
Mid Century Modern Steals the Show at Bunch Auctions November Hybrid Sale
- William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals
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- November 01, 2016
The first day of November wasn’t just about frolicking through fallen red leaves while double fisting pumpkin spice lattes. Bunch Auctions’ kicked off November with their fall Decorative & Fine ...
The Curator's Eye Presents an Ancient, Asian, and Ethnographic Jewelry Auction - Nov 30th
- The Curator's Eye, LLC
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- November 01, 2016
The Curator's Eye (TCE) has announced their next virtual live auction which will be held on November 30th. This will be The Curator's Eye's third virtual auction, presenting an impressive catalog ...
'The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch' Opens at Cinemas in Nov.
- October 20, 2016
Starting Nov. 3, delve into the vivid imagination of a true visionary with a screening of The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch at select cinemas. Who was Hieronymus Bosch? Why do his strange and ...
Walters Presents A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe
- October 20, 2016
The Walters Art Museum presents A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe, a major international loan exhibition that brings together more than 100 works including stained ...
Uffizi Gallery's Botticelli Room Reopens After 16-Month Restoration
- October 18, 2016
Galleries housing beloved epic paintings, including The Birth of Venus and Primavera by Italian master Botticelli, upgraded and reinstalled After a significant series of upgrades and retrofitting ...
Sixteen Botticelli Masterworks in Major Exhibition Debuting at Virginia's Muscarelle Museum of Art This Winter
- October 14, 2016
One of only two of Botticelli’s paintings of an isolated Venus will be on view for the first time in the United States, together with other Botticelli mythologies and portraits in Botticelli and ...