Oxford museum pays over €5 million to keep Renaissance painting in the UK
The Ashmolean Museum raised nearly £4.5 million (€5.4 million) to stop Fra Angelico’s The Crucifixion being sold overseas.
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Museum Raises $6 Million to Keep Rare Renaissance Painting in the U.K.
A rare early masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico has been acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England ...
Smithsonian Magazine12d
See the Breathtaking 14th-Century Sienese Artworks That Helped Set the Italian Renaissance in Motion
This brief chapter of art history is often overlooked. Now, an exhibition in New York City makes a strong argument for the ...
Newbury Weekly News9d
Major Renaissance painting saved for the nation by Ashmolean Oxford £4.48m appeal
Ashmolean saves Fra Angelico masterpiece for the public, launching the museum as world-leading centre for the study of ...
Smithsonian Magazine27d
Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table
Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help ...
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Ashmolean Fra Angelico Triptych Saved For The Nation
The Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford has raised £4.5 million to save an early Renaissance painting by Fra ...
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At Rome’s Villa Borghese, Giambattista Marino is the poet painting the Baroque in words
The show will bring together early editions of Marino’s books with works of art that relate to them, either directly or by ...
The journey of a painting from Florence to Oxford
Museum staff have shared the history of a rare Italian renaissance painting they managed to save from being sold overseas.
Female Artists Are Defying Ageism In The Art World – And Maggi Hambling Is Leading The Charge
In the dead of night last spring, as rain fell in stubborn sheets upon the Sussex countryside, 79-year-old artist Maggi ...
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LEONARDO DA VINCI (New Series Premiere)
Monday, Nov. 18 and 19, 2024 from 8 - 10 p.m. / PBS app. This is a two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, ...
Ethiopian8d
The Art of Painting and Sculpture through the eyes of Artist Million Berhane
The practice of painting ... artists, enriching Ethiopia’s creative landscape. Her family was a significant influence on her ...