24 juin 2018

Ludovico Mazzanti, The Death of Lucretia, c. 1730, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents To Rome and Back: Individualism and Authority in Art, 1500– 1800. Assembled almost entirely from LACMA’s permanent collection, this examination of Rome presents gifts from years of support to the museum’s departments of Costume and Textiles, Decorative Arts and Design, Latin American Art, and Prints... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3733. A fine iron-red 'dragon' cup, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795); diameter 7.9 cm., 3 1/8  in. Estimate 160,000 — 200,000 HKD (45,982 — 68,974 EUR). Lot sold 200,000 HKD (71,847 EUR). Photo Sotheby's with finely potted sides rising steeply from a short foot to a slightly flared rim, the exterior enamelled in iron-red with two dragons grasping for flaming pearls with outstretched talons, one with head turned back looking over its shoulder, with... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3723. A fine pair of small blue and white cups, Yongzheng marks and period (1723-1735); 7.1 cm., 2 3/4  in. Estimate 550,000 — 650,000 HKD (63,226 — 74,721 EUR). Lot sold 687,500 HKD (79,032 EUR). Courtesy Sotheby's each delicately potted with deep rounded sides rising from a short foot to a slightly everted rim, the exterior decorated with six stylised flowerheads wreathed by meandering leafy scrolls, the interior centred with a medallion enclosing radiating spearhead motifs,... [Lire la suite]

Giambologna after Michelangelo, The Day, Florence before 1574. Alabaster, Skulpturensammlung © SKD, Photo: Wolfgang Kreische. DRESDEN.- With his interior for the Medici Chapel in Florence, which he created between 1524 and 1534, Michelangelo achieved an unequalled climax in Renaissance sculpture. His monumental personifications of the Times of Day – Dusk and Dawn, Night and Day – are pairs of reclining figures on the sarcophagi of Giuliano and Lorenzo de’ Medici. Almost shocking in their nudity and bold poses, these figures... [Lire la suite]

Panorama di Firenze dal Giardino di Boboli con le opere di Fritz Koenig: da sinistra:Großer St. MartinGrande San Martino 1963/1964, Große Flora V Grande Flora V 1977/1978. FLORENCE - From 21 june to 7 october 2018, in Florence, the Offices and the Garden of Boboli, the largest monographic exhibition dedicated to the creator of "The Sphere" of the Twin Towers of New York. "Then he arrived on 11 September 2001. On the day of the attack we are at home in the Pacific Palisades and we follow live on television how the... [Lire la suite]