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Director Bernhard Maaz looks at the Madonna paintings presented at the special exhibiton 'Heavenly Splendour. Raphael, Duerer and Gruenewald paint the Madonna' at the Gemaeldegalerie Alte Meister ('Art Gallery Old Masters') in Dresden, Germany, 05 September 2011. Raphael's masterpieces of the Madonna, the 'Sistine Madonna' (R) and the 'Madonna di Foligno' (L), are presented in one room for the first time after around 500 years. The joined exhibition by the Vatican Museum and the Art gallery Old Masters is open until 08 January 2012. EPA/MATTHIAS HIEKEL.
DRESDEN.- An exhibition by the Vatican Museums and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden 6 September 2011 – 8 January 2012 Venue: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, am Zwinger, Theaterplatz 1, Dresden Opening hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, closed on Mondays Just under 500 years ago Raphael, the most celebrated painter of the Renaissance, painted the “Sistine Madonna” and the “Madonna di Foligno”. These two masterpieces must be regarded as counterparts, or even ‘twins’, and it is quite probable that they stood together in Raphael’s workshop. They are now to be reunited in a special exhibition: “Himmlischer Glanz. Raffael, Dürer und Grünewald malen die Madonna” (Heavenly Splendour. Raphael, Dürer and Grünewald paint the Madonna) (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, 6. 9. 2011 – 8. 1. 2012). As an absolutely exceptional measure, Raphael’s ... More |
| Stadel Museum discovers an important work by French academic painter Jean-Léon Gérome | | Unique Roman gladiator ruins that flourished about 1,700 years ago unveiled in Austria | | Thomas Gainsborough Linley portraits reunited at Dulwich Picture Gallery
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Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), Saint Jérôme, 1874 (detail). Oil on canvas, 69 x 93 cm. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main© Städel Museum - ARTOTHEK.
FRANKFURT.- In the context of examining the Städel’s nineteenth-century holdings in view of the imminent reopening or new presentation of the museum’s collections respectively, an important painting by the French academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) has been discovered. The picture shows Saint Jerome reclining against a lion, his traditional attribute. After its comprehensive restoration, the painting will be on display for the first time as part of the Städel’s new permanent “Modern Art” (1800-1945) presentation. The work was last exhibited in London in 1882. Jean-Léon Gérôme ranks among the most successful artists of the second half of the nineteenth century. His pictures are to be found among the exhibits of the most prominent American, British and French museum’s permanent presentations. To date, the collections of the Hamburger Kunsthalle were the only ones in Germany w ... More | | 
Wolfgang Neubauer, director of the Ludwig Bolzmann institute for archaeological , speaks at a news conference. AP Photo/Ronald Zak.
By: George Jahn, Associated Press
PETRONELL-CARNUNTUM (AP).- They lived in cells barely big enough to turn around in and usually fought until they died. This was the lot of those at a sensational scientific discovery unveiled Monday: The well-preserved ruins of a gladiator school in Austria. The Carnuntum ruins are part of a city of 50,000 people 28 miles (45 kilometers) east of Vienna that flourished about 1,700 years ago, a major military and trade outpost linking the far-flung Roman empire's Asian boundaries to its central and northern European lands. Mapped out by radar, the ruins of the gladiator school remain underground. Yet officials say the find rivals the famous Ludus Magnus — the largest of the gladiatorial training schools in Rome — in its structure. And they say the Austrian site is even more detailed than the well-known Roman ruin, down to the ... More | | 
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1785-87, Oil on canvas, 220 x 154 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection. Photo: Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
LONDON.- Known in their times as the ‘nightingales’, Elizabeth and Mary Linley were the most beautiful and talked-about young girls in Bath’s society in the 1770s. From a musical family, they were applauded on the theatre stages of Bath and London, as much as they appeared in the newspapers of the day as society figures. They were portrayed together, in 1772, by Thomas Gainsborough, who was a close friend of their father’s, and their neighbour in Bath. The painter had seen Elizabeth and Mary grow before his eyes and tenderly represented them in their magnificent large canvas known as The Linley Sisters, now at Dulwich Picture Gallery. In the same year as the Dulwich painting was finished by Gainsborough, Elizabeth eloped to France with the young playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan ... More |
| Sotheby's Islamic World arts sale to feature exceptional ceramics from the Collection of Harvey B. Plotnick | | Bonhams offers two masterpieces by celebrated Russian painter Vasili Polenov, unseen for 80 years | | Sotheby's London to offer two landmark portraits by Johann Zoffany of the celebrated actor David Garrick | 
A 9th century Abbasid Pottery Bowl with Kufic Inscription, Iraq. Est. £150,000-200,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that the forthcoming Arts of the Islamic World Evening Auction will feature for sale 27 exquisite Islamic Ceramics from the Collection of Harvey B. Plotnick. Estimated at £2.6-3.6 million, the 27 pieces represent the first offering of a three-part-sale of the collection at Sotheby’s. The Evening auction, which also includes an assemblage of 17 rare and highly important works of Islamic Art sourced from collections across the globe, will take place on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 and carries a combined estimate of £9-13 million. The Arts of the Islamic World Day Sale will take place on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 and is expected to realise in excess of £9 million. Commenting on the market and the Arts of the Islamic World Evening Auction, Edward Gibbs, Senior Director and Head of Sotheby’s Middle East Department, said: “The demand for works of art relating to the field ... More | | 
Vasili Polenov, He is guilty of death (detail). Est: £ 600,000- 800,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Two rare works by the celebrated Russian artist Vasili Polenov are amongst the highlights of the Russian sale taking place on the 30th November at Bonhams, New Bond Street. Considered masterpieces of the golden age of 19th century Russian painting, the two works entitled “He that is Without Sin” (est. £1.2 – 1.8million) and “He is Guilty of Death” (est. £600,000 – 800,000) are new to the market and have never been seen at auction before. Both works are part of a monumental series consisting of sixty paintings titled “Life of Christ.” Completed over two decades, the series was exhibited in its entirety only once in 1909 in Russia. The exhibition was then offered the chance to exhibit in America and was reputedly scheduled to cross the Atlantic aboard the ill-fated Titanic. Due to a shipment delay, the series avoided the disastrous journey but it could not avoid being dispersed betwe ... More | | 
Johann Zoffany, The Shakespeare Temple at Hampton House, with Mr and Mrs David Garrick, painted in 1762. Est. £6-8 million.
LONDON.- Sotheby's announced the sale of the two most important works by Johann Zoffany to appear on the market in recent years. Both commissioned by David Garrick, Britain’s greatest actor, they depict him with his family and friends in the garden of his house on the banks of the river Thames at Hampton. Painted in 1762 they have only appeared once on the open market, when they were sold in 1823 from Garrick’s estate, and have descended in the family of a distinguished private collection ever since. From 2007 until 2010 the paintings hung together on loan at Tate Britain, in London, and have been requested as highlights for the forthcoming retrospective of Zoffany’s work at the Royal Academy later this year. They will be offered together as part of Sotheby’s Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale on 7th ... More |
| Italian cops nab alleged vandal of famous fountain; "exemplary punishment" requested by Mayor | | Israel's ancient rebel caves, a hidden adventure published in an obscure journal | | Film "Shame" directed by British video artist Steve McQueen brings sex addiction tale to Venice | 
A partial view of the Moor fountain in Rome's Piazza Navona. AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito.
ROME (AP).- Police said Monday they had detained a man who confessed to knocking two chunks of marble off a statue in Rome's famed Piazza Navona and of trying to damage the nearby Trevi Fountain. The suspect was picked up during a routine patrol near Piazza Navona late Sunday, a day after the vandalism took place, carabinieri officials told a press conference. Police noticed him because he was wearing the same white sneakers worn during the attack, images of which were captured by security camera footage. Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno urged no clemency for the suspect, saying Italy must protect its artistic heritage with an "exemplary punishment." The footage showed the man climbing in the Moro Fountain on the southern end of Piazza Navona early Saturday and repeatedly attacking the statue — one of four large faces at the edge of the fountain — with a large cobblestone and then walking away. The damage is on a 19 ... More | | 
Researcher Boaz Langford stands inside an ancient rebel hideout at Hurvat Burgin archaeological site, at the foothills of Jerusalem. REUTERS/Baz Ratner.
By: Ari Rabinovitch
JERUSALEM (REUTERS).- You'll need a headlamp, a tight waistline and no fear of the dark in order to enjoy one of the most extreme, yet lesser known, archaeological wonders of the Holy Land. Still, even with the proper equipment and intestinal fortitude, it is easy to lose your cool when crawling through the expansive ancient tunnel systems dug by Jewish rebels to fight the Roman empire. The hundreds of hideouts, ranging from just a few meters deep to seemingly unending labyrinths, are popular among Israeli archaeologists and adventurists. But the subterranean mazes, which date back as early as the first century BC, are virtually unknown to foreigners. Even if you go looking for them, as designed, they are easy to miss. The systems were often reached through trap doors in Jewish villages, some of which ... More | | 
British director Steve McQueen arrives for the screening of the movie 'Shame' during the 68th Venice Film Festival. EPA/ANDREA MEROLA.
By: Silvia Aloisi
VENICE (REUTERS).- Up-and-coming Irish actor Michael Fassbender plays a sex addict in "Shame," a movie by British video artist Steve McQueen that is vying for the top prize at the Venice film festival. It is the second lead role for Fassbender in a competition movie at this year's festival after his portrayal of psychoanalyst Carl Jung in David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method." In Shame, the German-born Fassbender is Brandon, a handsome, 30-something executive living in New York whose only distraction from work is seducing women, masturbating at home or in the office and looking for sex on the Internet. The tightly controlled rhythm of his life begins to fall apart when his needy, dysfunctional sister Sissy, played by Carey Mulligan, arrives for an unannounced visit. Her presence, and her craving ... More |
| Crazy Horse sculptor's 85-year-old widow, Ruth Ziolkowski, carries on mountain dream | | 1775 public notice known as a "broadside": Colonists asked pacifists to pay | | Governor-General's railway carriage on show for the first time at the Powerhouse Museum | 
The nearly 90-foot-tall carved granite face of Crazy Horse is seen in South Dakota's Black Hills. REUTERS/Patrick (Pat) Dobbs.
By: Greg McCune
CUSTER (REUTERS).- Nearly every morning for more than half a century, 85-year-old Ruth Ziolkowski rises around dawn, puts her feet on the ground and gives thanks she is part of a dream. Since 1947, she has worked at the Crazy Horse monument to Native Americans in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where she is leading the effort to literally move a mountain. "I'm tickled to death to get up every morning and go to work," Ziolkowski, president of the non-profit Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, said in an interview this summer. Billed as the world's largest sculpture, Crazy Horse is only a 20-mile drive from better-known Mount Rushmore, where faces of presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson ... More | | 
Dorothy Earhart, left, and Dorothy Garrett display a 1775 broadside at the Lititz Moravian Museum. AP Photo/Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, Richard Hertzler.
By: Peter Jackson, Associated Press
LITITZ, PA (AP).- In a fledgling nation hungry for men to fight in the American Revolution, conscientious objectors were frequently greeted with scorn and their loyalty was questioned. As war approached, leaders in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County sought to ease tensions by urging the growing number of German immigrants with religious objections to war to demonstrate their patriotism by giving as much money as they could afford to the revolutionary cause. The proposition is spelled out in a July 11, 1775, public notice known as a "broadside," which is on display at the Moravian Archives & Museum here. Experts recently confirmed it as the only known English-language copy. Lancaster played an important role ... More | | 
One of the three bedrooms in the Governor-General's carriage. Photo: Powerhouse Museum.
SYDNEY.- One of the Powerhouse Museum’s most treasured objects, the magnificent 1901 Governor-General’s carriage, is now being publicly exhibited for the first time at Trainworks, Thirlmere, in Sydney’s south west. The Governor-General’s carriage is the second and final stage of the relocation of three historic rail objects from the Museum’s unique railway collection for public display. It joins the Powerhouse’s two operating steam locomotives, 3830 and 3265, at Thirlmere. For the first time, visitors to Trainworks will see the opulent Governor-General’s carriage which features hand-carved cedar panels, silk drapes, gold-plated fittings, etched glass panels and late Victorian furnishings. It will be the centrepiece of Trainworks’ main exhibition building that opened on 4 April 2011, completing a significant upgrade of the site by RailCorp’s Office of Rail Heritage. “ ... More |
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 Matthew Monahan, Untitled at Galerie Fons Welters AMSTERDAM.- The universe of American artist Matthew Monahan (Eureka, CA, 1972) is full of powerful and bizarre human-like objects that have an enormous presence in the space. He creates a world humming with its own mythology and language, one that plays with our collective and individual unconsciousness, while searching for his own breathtaking artistic solutions. According to the artist, the human body is the formal frame into which he throws all his magic. For his new show in Galerie Fons Welters he subjects the body to all kinds of formal shocks: ornamentation, fracture, excavation, erosion or dissection. But whatever he does, the gamut of testing they may have run is only to bring out the character, the face of survival, the whole surface of a human landscape, and ultimately, a feeling of love and empathy. His imagination is according to the artist a cluttered scrap heap of souvenirs, relics, and sex drive. In this con ... More Mat Collishaw to feature "Bullet Hole" at the 12th Istanbul Biennial LONDON.- Mat Collishaw’s seminal work Bullet Hole will feature in the 12th Istanbul Biennial. Bullet Hole depicts a horrific wound to the top of a human scalp, the hair of the recipient plastered to the sides to reveal the entry point. Collishaw appropriated the original photograph from a pathology textbook; despite the work’s name, the wound was in fact caused by an ice pick. He then enlarged the photograph, creating fifteen transparencies each mounted on its own lightbox. Unsurprisingly, Bullet Hole created an immediate sensation when it was first shown in Freeze, the now legendary exhibition curated by Damien Hirst in 1988, and has since become one of the pivotal images of the YBA (Young British Artist) movement. Indeed, Bullet Hole gave the exhibition its name; according to the catalogue: ‘the title comes from Mat Collishaw’s lightbox, dedicated to a moment of impact, a preserved now, a freeze frame. ... More Sotheby's Hong Kong to hold magnificent jewels and jadeite autumn sale in October HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong announced today that the Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite Autumn Sale 2011 will take place on 5 October 2011 at Hall 3, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The sale will be led by Jewels of India – a fascinating array of magnificent and extremely rare jewellery associated with the exotic Mogul Kingdom of old, including ethereal diamonds from the ancient mine of Golconda, among them the Golconda Pink, a Highly Important and Rare 9.27-Carat Golconda Fancy Vivid Pink Diamond and Diamond Ring (Est. HK$100 – 150 million / US$13 – 19 million. These extraordinary jewels will be complemented by an important selection of colourless and coloured diamond, gemstone, natural pearl and jadeite of superb quality. Altogether the sale will offer 359 lots estimated to achieve a total of HK$660 million / US$85 million*. QUEK Chin Yeow, Deputy Chairman and Head of Jewellery Department, So ... More Bonhams to sell Aston Martin owned by Shane Filan of Irish pop group Westlife CHICHESTER.- Bonhams will be offering a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 4.2 Litre Sports Saloon owned by Shane Filan of Westlife at the Goodwood Revival on Friday 16th September 2011. The car is expected to fetch £250,000-300,000. Manufactured on 4th May 1964 the car was found in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by marque specialist Desmond J Smail where it was in need of full restoration. It was re-imported to the UK several years ago and sold to singer Shane Filan of the Irish pop group 'Westlife' as a project car to be restored by DJS to the client's specification. Westlife was formed in July 1998 with a five-member line-up and is the only act in the history of British and Irish popular music to have their first seven singles go straight to No.1 in the charts. Shane is 'car mad' and bought the DB5 as it was something he always wanted; it was also a 30th birthday present to himself. However, as he is away touring for the next ... More Martin Luther King Memorial architect says inscription will stay WASHINGTON (AP).- The executive architect of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington says an inscription on the monument won't be changed, despite criticism from poet Maya Angelou that it makes King sound arrogant. Ed Jackson Jr. tells The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/pY9voR ) he stands by the paraphrased line from King's "drum major" sermon in 1968. King said, "If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness." The shortened version reads: "I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness." Jackson says the line has historical perspective and allows King to define himself. He says there is no way it can be altered. ... MoreTwo arrested in Portugal after rhino horn heistLISBON (AP).- Portuguese police say they have arrested two foreigners on suspicion of stealing rhino horns from a museum in central Portugal. The arrests came after a recent spate of rhino horn thefts from European museums this year. Authorities say the horns, purported to have aphrodisiac and medicinal qualities, are more valuable than gold on the black market. Thieves took a pair of horns from the Museum of Natural History at the University of Coimbra, in central Portugal, in April. Police said in a statement Monday they arrested a father and son, aged 63 and 31, as they attempted to fly out of Portugal last week allegedly with six rhino horns valued at euro400,000 ($565,000) in their luggage. Their names and nationalities were not immediately available. ... More |
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