The list remains confidential and is to be released by the Emirates but we can already reveal here that Leonardo's La Belle Ferronnière will be sent by the Louvre to Abou-Dhabi for the grand opening of its satellite. Once again, we feel it is (...)
"Mister Mayor, be careful what you do at the Palazzo Vecchio in the Salone dei Cinquecenti !..." These were the words pronounced last 28 May, during the social event organized for the presentation of the restored Saint Anne at the Louvre, by (...)
We generally think that the world's greatest masterpieces have all been thoroughly studied, leaving nothing more for us to discover. In fact, this is not true as is masterfully demonstrated by the current exhibition now showing at the Louvre on (...)
The restoration of Leonardo da Vinci's Saint Anne has once again sparked off a debate, when in fact nothing new has happened since the month of October. We had known since the beginning about Jean-Pierre Cuzin’s opposition to this restoration, (...)
Nicholas Penny had announced there would be no more blockbuster exhibitions. The one now highlighting Leonardo da Vinci at the National Gallery is thus a bit paradoxical as one would be hard put to imagine a restrospective drawing larger crowds (...)
he National Gallery in London has just finished restoring the Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci which is now once again on display to the public since Wednesday, 14 July 2010.
During a recent removal of The Virgin with the Child Jesus and Saint Anne for examination by the C2RMF, Sylvain Laveissière, général curator at the Département des peintures at the Louvre noticed the presence of drawings on the back of the (...)
Next 5 July, Alessandro Vezzosi is publishing a work entitled Leonardo infinito in which he ascribes the Portrait of a Woman on parchment, held in a private Swiss collection, to Leonardo.
The Louvre is still offering great deals. If you are a millionaire and would like to organize an exhibition, this is definitely the place to come : ask for a couple of masterpieces and it will see you get them on condition you pay the right (...)
We had presented the demonstration of the multispectral camera at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille by Lumière Technology and explained its contributions to the work of art historians and restorers
Having passed away last month, the Duke of Buccleuch was not able to witness the return of the Madonna with the Yarnwinder, which was stolen four years ago and which has just been recovered by the (...)