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Detroit Institute of Arts director finds missing Velázquez painting
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (567+ words) Diego Velázquez’s The Count-Duke of Olivares in Armor (1626) Courtesy ARS Magazine/Private Collection Paintings by Diego Velázquez are a rarity. Numbering around 120, with some 50 of those concentrated in the permanent collection of Madrid’s Museo del Prado, they can typically be…...
Exhibition in Bogotá shows off more than 1,000 repatriated pre-Columbian artefacts
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (401+ words) Installation view of Pasados en retorno. Repatriación del patrimonio arqueológico at the Museo Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá Courtesy: Mauricio Idarraga / Museo Nacional de Colombia Bogotá’s Museo Nacional de Colombia is showing off the 1,194 pre-Columbian artefacts repatriated to the country between…...
Caravaggio and Rubens works destroyed by fire in Second World War are brought back to (digital) life
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (353+ words) Master of the Schöppingen Altarpiece’s Crucifixion of Christ and Scenes from His Passion (1450-60) was among the works destroyed in the 1945 fire Kleinert explains that, with few exceptions, the glass negatives have survived in very good condition—and their sharpness is…...