Sedona International Film Festival presents the Great Art on Screen series with “Botticelli: Florence and the Medici.” The event will show in Sedona on Tuesday, Jan. 12, at 4 and 7 p.m., at the festival’s Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Great Art on Screen is a series of documentaries featuring an in-depth look at the most extraordinary and groundbreaking...
READ MOREOn December 25, Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Christ as it’s described in the Gospels. Over the course of centuries, artists experimented with different ways to retell the humble yet extraordinary story of the Virgin Mary’s delivery of a savior in the form of an infant. For Italian Renaissance artists, the subject of the Nativ...
READ MOREA rare painting by Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli is poised to achieve over US$80 million (HK$620 million) when it goes under the hammer in New York in January, according to Sotheby’s — setting a record auction price for the artist. “Young Man Holding a Roundel” has been billed by the auction house as one of the greatest paintings fro...
READ MOREA painting by Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli could fetch over $80 million when it goes under the hammer in New York in January, Sotheby's said Thursday -- a record auction price for the artist. "Young Man Holding a Roundel" has been billed by the auction house as one of the greatest paintings from the era still in private hands. It is...
READ MOREThursday October 3. 6:30 pm. Casa Italiana Zerilli - Marimò, 24 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011. Organized by Prof. Alison Cornish, "Dante and..." is a series of lectures that focus on Dante's relevance in today's world. In ENGLISH. Admission: free; Member seat reservation is exclusively for Casa Italiana members. General RSVP is for the general publ...
READ MOREThe endless attention given its worst day–the 1990 robbery which saw a pair of thieves disguised as police officers steal 13 works of art including those by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Manet and Degas, to this day the most expensive property theft in history–makes it easy to forget that the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston still exhibits great art...
READ MOREEven before she had a museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner had a Botticelli — the first painting by the late 15th-century Italian artist to enter this country. It wasn’t one of the ravishing masterpieces casual art lovers are familiar with: “Primavera” or “The Birth of Venus” — those magnificent large-scale paintings that lure thousands of visitors to...
READ MOREFebruary 14 - May 19, 2019. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Hostetter Gallery. 25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115. Legendary painter Sandro Botticelli transformed ancient stories of lust, betrayal, and violence into Renaissance parables. In 1894, Isabella Stewart Gardner bought the Story of Lucretia, bringing the first Botticelli to America. Heroines...
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