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The grape is known as Cannonau in Sardinia, where it is claimed that it originated there according to recent archaeological finds, [5] and spread to other Mediterranean lands under Aragon rule. [3] Grenache, under its Spanish synonym Garnacha, was already well established on both sides of the Pyrenees when the Roussillon region was annexed by ...
La Zingarella or Gypsy Girl is a 140 centimetres (55 in) tall statue of Diana, [2] a combination of an ancient body with additions commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese [3] and executed by Nicolas Cordier, between 1607 and 1612. The additions, a head and the extremities of the body, were in bronze, and white and grey marble
The statuette was discovered at the site of ancient Dodona (outside Ioannina) in the Greek region of Epirus during illicit excavations in the year 1997; [1] [2] the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports was alerted by a local man a couple of years later, but they were slow to act as the statuette was erroneously deemed a worthless forgery. News ...
Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki.
The J. Paul Getty Museum's priceless collection of artwork, which includes paintings by Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Monet and Degas, once again found itself in the path of destruction as the Palisades ...
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
The figures are relatively small, between about 8 and 1 inch (20.3 and 2.5 centimetres) high, and in one or two colours. The paint was generally very thin, using mineral earths (often reddish) or charcoal , and the paintings are preserved by a very thin transparent layer of limescale forming over them from water dripping down the wall. [ 8 ]
Experts at a New York-based art data science firm believe a long-lost piece by Vincent van Gogh was sold at a garage sale in Minnesota and recently published a report about its investigation.. In ...