Andrea del Castagno - Finestre sull'Arte

Record-breaking Michelangelo. One of his drawings sold for 23 million euros.

On May 18, 2022, an important drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti depicting a nude man and two figures behind him and made in pen and brown ink was sold at auction for a record price of 23,162 million euros. Modest in size (33 x 20 centimeters), the d...
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Sotheby's, Botticelli's Vir Dolorum sold for $45.4 million

One year after the record sale of Sandro Botticelli's $92.2 million Portrait of a Young Man with Medallion, the same artist's Vir Dolorum went to auction at Sotheby 's today as expected. A few days ago the latter painting had provided a wonderful su...
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At auction at Sotheby's is the largest version of Magritte's Empire of Lights. Estimated at more than $60 million

Going up for eveningauction at Sotheby's in London on March 2 is one of René Magritte's best-known masterpieces: a version of The Empire of Lights. The painting is estimated at more than $60 million. It is the largest version of the painting i...
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Mediartrade presents its upcoming auction of modern and contemporary art featuring works by leading artists

Mediartrade Auction House presents the upcoming auction of Modern and Contemporary Art that will take place on Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. at the Milan headquarters in Via Marco Polo 9, Porta Nuova. On the website www.mediartrade.com it...
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Bologna, Lucio Dalla's luminarias dedicated to Futura auctioned. Proceeds to the oncology department

The illuminations that had been installed along Via D'Azeglio in Bologna since December 2020, dedicated to Lucio Dalla's famous song Futura, have been auctioned off in collaboration with Sotheby 's and the Galleria d'Arte Maggiore. The initiative wa...
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Frida Kahlo's record-breaking first self-portrait sold at auction at Sotheby's

For the first time, a work by a Latin American artist has been sold at auction for a record sum: it is Diego y yo, a painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, which was sold at Sotheby 's for the sum of nearly $35 million, $34,883,000 to be exact. Est...
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Uffizi Lands: Andrea del Castagno's portrait of Dante goes on display in San Godenzo

The Uffizi's Terre degli Uffizi project, the palimpsest of exhibitions that the Uffizi organizes outside Florence, lands in San Godenzo, a town in the Tuscan Apennines with great symbolic value, since it is the birthplace of Andrea del Cast a...
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