Topic: Visual Arts
AP News | 2010-03-17 15:37:04
Dutch police arrest 2 suspects in museum art heist; stolen paintings still missing
Dutch police say they have arrested two men suspected of involvement in an art heist last year in which masked and armed men snatched two paintings, including one by Salvador Dali, from a museum. The robbers stole "Adolescence," a 1941 gouache by Dali and "La Musicienne," an ...
AP News | 2010-03-17 15:15:56
Giovanna Bertazzoni, right, Christie's auction house head of Impressionist and Modern Art department, poses for the photographers in front of a 1903 Pablo Picasso painting entitled 'Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto' (The Absinthe Drinker), during a press view ...
AP News | 2010-03-17 15:15:53
Giovanna Bertazzoni, right, Christie's auction house head of Impressionist and Modern Art department, poses for the photographers in front of a 1903 Pablo Picasso painting entitled 'Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto' (The Absinthe Drinker), during a press view ...
Reuters Life! Online Report | 2010-03-17 14:33:43
MILAN (Reuters Life!) - Italian anthropologists expect to have a definite result in their investigation into Baroque artist Caravaggio's death in May, hopefully unveiling a centuries old mystery. Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage has been working since last year to find out what caused the painter's death in 1610 and the whereabouts of his corpse. Working with ...
