by admin | Jan 5, 2021 | Auctions, Authentications & attributions, Highlights
“In the past century, and at the beginning of this one, dealing with Botticelli would have seemed madness”, wrote Symonds, a great scholar, specialist of the Italian Renaissance, in 1877. And in 1895, Bernard Shaw followed, among others: “Today ten acres of Carracci,...
by admin | Nov 15, 2020 | Auctions, Cutural Heritage, Highlights
The picture from private collection, “The temptations of St. Jerome“, attributed to Giorgio Vasari, a brilliant painter, architect, historian and biographer of the Italian Renaissance, was sold at auction at a world-record price for the artist of...
by admin | Oct 27, 2020 | Art-Test News, Auctions, Cutural Heritage
Have you ever tried to imagine your life without art? That thing you always thought was frivolous, superficial and superfluous, not your core business, bit of a waste of time, that thing that I may read later, now I don’t feel like it, it...
by admin | Oct 25, 2020 | Auctions
Mercoledì 2 ottobre 2019, presso la casa d’aste Pandolfini a Firenze, si è svolta ARCADE, l’asta di dipinti dal XVI al XX secolo. A stupire è stato il lotto 168. Un dipinto, olio su tela, raffigurante un cane con candela e gigli. La base d’asta partiva...
by admin | Oct 25, 2020 | Auctions, Authentications & attributions, Highlights
The longstanding question regarding the authentication of artworks, both old master and modern ones, is always relevant. Even today, no shared scientific protocols have been established, so to start a correct discussion on this topic. Not later than last week, this...
