Lundi 20 mai 2019
Last update on 2/11/2016
Last update on 2/11/2016
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
The Ashmolean recently received a donation through Acceptance in Lieu of an unpublished painting by Francesco Guardi entitled Venice : the Fondamenta Nuove with the Lagoon and the Island of San Michele, produced in 1758. A subsidy provided by (...)
Anyone strolling through Paris, lovers of Italian painting and even the most uninformed know by now that Canaletto is the subject of two exhibitions currently showing simultaneously at two different venues, the first at the Musée (...)
In 1881, the Milanese aristocrat Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli transformed his wealthy residence into a museum in order to present his extensive collections of paintings and decorative arts to the public. This example was instrumental in the (...)
Famous for the quantity and quality of its old master drawings, the Frits Lugt collection also holds an ensemble of paintings which are currently being highlighted in an exhibition at the Institut néerlandais, following a campaign of restoration (...)
I admit I went to the National Gallery dragging my feet a little. I have never been particularly enamoured of Canaletto, nor of Venetian view painting in general, their paintings seeming at times very repetitive and in many cases mediocre. This (...)
The Welsh museum has just received a painting by Francesco Guardi as “acceptance in lieu”. Since the price of the work exceeded the tax amount due, the museum also paid 85.000 £ of which 20.000 was provided by The Art (...)
