Michelangelo works to be restored
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The last two frescoes painted by the Renaissance master Michelangelo are to be restored, the Vatican says.
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A copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, once believed to be the original of the masterpiece by the Italian polymath, goes on public show in London next week for the first time in more than a century.
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Italy will lend its artistic expertise to help conserve the famed Ajanta-Ellora cave paintings and sculptures in western India under an agreement signed on Monday.
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The 500th aniversary of the unveiling of Michelangelo's David is celebrated in Florence.
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BamiyanÂs Buddhist relics are again the focus of debate: Is it possible to restore the great Buddhas?
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New high-resolution images of Leonardo's biblical painting show the artist's techniques in detail.
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Two of the four paintings stolen in one of the world's largest art thefts have been recovered in an abandoned car
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MOSCOW A Russian icon is back home after hanging for years in Pope John Paul&#39;s private chapel. The Vatican is returning the 18th century replica of the Mother of God of Kazan icon to the Russian Orthodox Church
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VATICAN CITY, NOV. 25, 2004 .- Theological dialogue between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches is expected to resume after the relics of Sts.
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A two-hour wait for the Uffizi art gallery in Florence. Ten euro - that's 13 - to see Michelangelo's David in the Accademia gallery, another Florence gallery, plus a room crammed with little-known artists.
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Modern renaissance man Maurizio Seracini wants to find Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari. His organization Editech uses high-tech tools to track down historic Italian works of art that the years have hidden from the public eye.
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An exhibition of papal portraits from the Renaissance to Pope John Paul II will open in Rome at the end of this month, the organisers announced.
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Italy told the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Thursday it must return all disputed art works in its collection and said the era when respected museums could get away with displaying looted antiquities was over.
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ESZTERGOM, Hungary  - A fresco in a Hungarian chapel is believed to be by Italian renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, the head of the local museum said on Friday.
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One of the world's finest art collections has finally got the kind of clean, modern space that old masters such as Goya, Velazquez and El Greco deserve.
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Scientific testing of recently-found paintings supposedly by Jackson Pollock has cast doubt on their authenticity.
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An Italian art restorer said she has identified a painting long thought to be a copy of a Caravaggio masterpiece, "St. Jerome Writing," as an authentic work of the Baroque master.