Leonardo painting loan stirs controversy in Italy
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FLORENCE, Italy  - Italy plans to lend one of Leonardo da Vinci's best known paintings to Japan this month but opponents say the long plane trip could damage the masterpiece and are threatening to block the transfer.
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Now that a growing number of paintings returned from museums to Jewish families who once owned them have been fetching millions at auction, critics in Germany and Austria say that the claims of restitution have little to do with justice
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It's another public relations debacle for the nation's museum industry, already tarred by reports that top institutions knowingly dealt in looted Italian artifacts.
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New high-resolution images of Leonardo's biblical painting show the artist's techniques in detail.
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The brazen daylight theft of Edvard Munch&#39;s renowned masterpiece &quot;The Scream&quot; left Norway&#39;s police scrambling for clues and stirred a debate across Europe over how to protect art if thieves are willing to use deadly force to take it.
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David Hockney's controversial theory that early Renaissance painters used cameralike devices has been challenged by researchers using digital techniques.
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Italy's culture minister has threatened to shut down Florence's Uffizi museum, home of masterpieces by Michelangelo and Botticelli, if the government doesn't scale back planned spending cuts.
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Scientific testing of recently-found paintings supposedly by Jackson Pollock has cast doubt on their authenticity.
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A painting of a Venetian view by Italian master Canaletto is sold for $5.28m (Â£2.8m) in New York.
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The daring theft of Edvard Munch&#39;s masterpiece &quot;The Scream&quot; has left the international art world in a state of shock.
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MOSCOW -- Last May, Maria Paphiti, an icons specialist at Christie's auction house in London, was invited to inspect some religious paintings on wood that were among the contents of a building recently bought by an English family. The artworks had been found wrapped in plastic, and the building's...
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A series of paintings, by controversial artist Jack Vettriano, are sold at auction for more than Â£1m.
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A published account of Italyâs malaise has become Topic A in a country that cares a lot about how it is seen abroad.
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The Spanish are not newcomers to the international art market. After the English Parliamentarians executed Charles I in 1649, they sold the royal art collection, which included works by Raphael, Mantegna, ...
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An Italian school's substitution of a  Nativity play with Little Red Riding Hood so as not to offend  Muslim children has raised the Vatican's ire and sparked debate  on how much traditions should change to accommodate immigrants.
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Leonardo Da Vinci's sketch for the background of his painting, "Adoration of the Magi," will be displayed publicly outside of his native Italy for the first time on Thursday at the Library of Congress.
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A portrait of Florentine ruler Lorenzo de' Medici by Raphael sells for more than Â£18m at auction in London.