5 December Probabilmente la prima risposta di molti. Eppure sicuramente conoscete almeno uno dei suoi dipinti. Perché fu molto prolifico e pure molto bravo. Lo ammirava Vasari (che lo menzionò ancora vivente) e in fondo lo stimava anche Tiziano che lo aveva...
8 December Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera remarried in a simple civil ceremony on 8 December 1940, after a first marriage in 1929, a divorce in 1939, and lots of troubles and troubled times meanwhile. The Mexican Revolution Civil War, and an infinite series of health...
How to authenticate a work of art? How to reveal forgeries? On 2 and 3 December 2021, as a result of an excellent initiative of the Italian Group of the International Institute for Conservation, the workshop “The scientist and the forgery – Scientific methodologies to...
Often, to authenticate a work of art, its “provenance” is used, or the succession of the various owners, to try and trace the purchase contracts till the first, with the author’s signature on it.But “provenance” data are not at all easy to verify. On the contrary, it...
Afghanistan: how the nation can defend itself from the iconoclastic fury of the Taliban, including a list of items NOT TO BUY In Afghanistan, the arrival of the Taliban will bring an abrupt setback to a nation who had seemed to be able to strike a delicate balance. In...
The former head of the Rembrandt Research Project, Ernst de Wetering, died on 11th August 2021. He has been a crucial figure in the authentication arena, and a very powerful connoisseur. As chairman of the RRP from 1990 till the cease of activities in 2011,...
