Sep 5, 2022 | Art, Culture, Museums, News & Trending
The Guelph Treasure art dispute between a German museum and the heirs of Jewish art dealers has been dismissed by a U.S. court for a second time, over jurisdictional issues. The Welfenschatz, or Guelph Treasure, is a 200 million euro hoard of silver and gold church...
Aug 1, 2022 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, Music, News & Trending
Raphael tapestries are being shown for the first time in the United States, at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. Raffaello Sanzio, better known to the world as Raphael, was one of the trinity of masters of the High Renaissance. The rivalry, real or exaggerated,...
Jul 25, 2022 | Art, Museums, New York, News & Trending
Looted artifacts are on their way back to Italy, as New York investigators hand over 142 objects they’ve seized in the past year. A third of the stolen assortment came from the collection of Mr. Steinhardt, a billionaire antiquities collector who was made to...
Jul 18, 2022 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, Museums, News & Trending
Hidden sketches have been discovered inside a painting by Jewish Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Modigliani painted and sculpted in France in the 1910s, until his early death in 1920, at the age of 35. His art, mostly portraits and nudes in surreal, elongated...
Jul 4, 2022 | Art, Culture, Museums, News & Trending
The Lod Mosaic has come home to Israel at last, after a decade-long world tour. In 1996, construction workers in the Israeli town of Lod were widening a street when they discovered tile. The Israel Antiquities Authority was brought in, and the find was carefully...
Jun 27, 2022 | Art, Culture, Museums, News & Trending
San Severino Marche, Italy, sees the return of artworks damaged in the 2016 earthquakes. In the fall of 2016, between August and October, three large earthquakes and many smaller ones wrecked central Italy. Over 300 people were killed, and homes, churches, and museums...