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A painting by the 15th-century master Sandro Botticelli, recorded as missing since the 1980s, has been found at a home in southern Italy.. The depiction of the Virgin Mary and infant Christ was ...
The same painting had been stolen from the same museum on June 4, 1977, and was recovered ten years later [14] in Kuwait. [15] The painting is small, measuring 65 x 54 cm, and depicts yellow and red poppy flowers. [16] It is believed that van Gogh painted it in 1887, three years before his suicide. [14] $50–55,000,000 [11] ¥100,000,000
The Art Loss Register is a commercial computerized international database which captures information about lost and stolen art, antiques and collectables. It is operated by a commercial company based in London. In the U.S., the FBI maintains the National Stolen Art File, "a database of stolen art and cultural property. Stolen objects are ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Virgin and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist: 1490–1500: Tempera on panel: diameter 74 cm: São Paulo Museum of Art: Holy Trinity: 1491–1493: Tempera on panel: 215 × 192 cm: London, Courtauld Institute of Art: Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist: 1491–1493: Tempera on panel: 47.65 × 38.1 cm ...
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The painting was created by Sandro Botticelli around 1470. [1] Art historian Peppe Di Massa argues the work was inspired by and depicts Botticelli's alleged muse, Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci. Botticelli donated the painting to Pope Sixtus IV who donated it to the Santa Maria della Carità in Santa Maria la Carità to gain favor with the Medici ...
A painting thought to be a Picasso original was found over 60 years ago by a junk dealer in the basement of a villa on the island of Capri, Italy Italian art experts think the painting could ...
Ronald Lightbown considers the painting may have originally been intended for Botticelli's own pleasure and use, as the Mystic Nativity seems to have been. Without any description of the setting in Lucian or Alberti, Botticelli has imagined a throne room very elaborately decorated with sculptures and reliefs of classical heroes, creatures from ancient myth, and battle scenes.