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LONDON – Christie’s will offer the painting Venice, the Bacino di San Marco with the Piazzetta and the Doge’s Palace by Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) at its Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale on July 8. It will be the first time in over a century the painting from the Baron Henri de Rothschild Collection […]
BERLIN (AP) – Germany is returning a painting by 18th-century Venetian artist Francesco Guardi that was looted from Poland by the Nazis. The painting Palace Stairs was taken from Poland’s National Museum in 1939. After World War II, the painting passed into the collection of the State Gallery of Baden-Wuerttemberg. The handover Monday by German […]
NEW YORK – Since 1881, an ancient Egyptian monument—the obelisk of Pharaoh Thutmose III, popularly known as “Cleopatra’s Needle”—has stood in New York’s Central Park, a gift to the City of New York from the khedives of Egypt. It is the only monumental obelisk from ancient Egypt in the United States. The obelisk can be […]
AU.S. World War I medal group attributed to Albert L. Schlesinger, which included a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, a French Croix de Guerre and French veterans’ medals, sold for $1,840 at a World at War Auction held Feb. 22 by Cowan’s Auctions in Cincinnati. Also, a World War II German SS side cap and […]