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Artemisia Gentileschi is an Old Master of Italian Baroque art. In art history, "Old Master" (or "old master") [1] [2] refers to any painter of skill who worked in Europe before about 1800, or a painting by such an artist. An "old master print" is an original print (for example an engraving, woodcut, or etching) made by an artist in the same ...
A newly discovered drawing was sold for US$11.65m at Sotheby's, New York in 2020. It was the most expensive Old Master drawing sold in the United States. The drawing, before it was reattributed to the Italian Renaissance master, first appeared in a small auction in Germany and sold for less than US$1,000.
An old master print (also spaced masterprint) is a work of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition. The term remains current in the art trade , and there is no easy alternative in English to distinguish the works of " fine art " produced in printmaking from the vast range of decorative, utilitarian and popular prints ...
In March 2024, the museum was very fortunate to acquire a beautiful Old Master drawing from donor Sylvie Grangé, who gave it in memory of her late husband, Dr. Gerard “John” F. O’Brien, a ...
M. Hirst, Michelangelo and His Drawings (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988) M. Royalton-Kisch, H. Chapman and S. Coppel, Old Master Drawings from the Museum, exhibition catalogue (London, The British Museum Press, 1996) J. Wilde, Italian drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings, 2 (London, The British Museum Press, 1953)
The Libro de' Disegni (Italian for Book of Drawings) was a collection of drawings gathered, sorted, and grouped by Giorgio Vasari whilst writing his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.
The Old Masters Gallery re-opened in 1960 after the reconstruction of the gallery building was completed. While the most important paintings survived this period, the losses were significant. Records from 1963 state that 206 paintings had been destroyed and 507 were missing. [ 1 ]
The “master blacksmith” is long gone but, as archaeologists recently discovered, traces of the ancient workshop remain. ... Archaeologists found the ruins of the “rare” 2,500-year-old ...