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...These include Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” (c1500), which Rybolovlev later auctioned for an all-time record of $450.3mn....
...To this end, Maison Hannon is being supported by Vinci Energies Belgium in the restoration and its sustainability....
...Connections like these fuelled the hyperbolic and nefarious depiction of Opus Dei in Dan Brown’s 2003 thriller, The Da Vinci Code, and its subsequent film adaptation....
...It is also worth wondering whether things are getting worse, as prices rise to stratospheric levels (almost half a billion dollars in the case of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” when it was auctioned...
...It is now valued between $20m and $30m, a huge jump, though below the prices that later Renaissance artists such as Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci can now command....
...It is hard to believe that, for all her self-delusion, Beverley (who claims to be a friend of Margaret Atwood) would blithely assert that “Leonardo da Vinci’s work is probably a lot better than mine.”...
...Paul Dabrowa does not know if it is illegal to genetically modify beer at home in a way that makes it glow....
...AC Milan is owned by the $38.2bn hedge fund Elliott Management, and controlled by Gordon Singer, son of the hedge fund’s founder Paul....
...Martin Kemp, a British expert on da Vinci, has declared it to be the Italian master’s work....
...She will replace Paul Manduca, who is stepping down after a decade on the board of directors....
...(NYT) Video of the day What Paul Volcker taught us about taming inflation The FT’s Brooke Fox lists the most influential aspects of Paul Volcker’s career and their relevance to today....
...Alessandro Farnese, better known as Pope Paul III, had a son, Pier Luigi, who was accused in 1537 of raping the 24-year-old bishop of Fano....
...French bank Crédit Industriel et Commercial has appointed Pierre Vinci as the new general manager of its London branch....
...Crédit Industriel et Commercial has appointed Pierre Vinci as the general manager of its London branch....
...“The sky-blue smiles above the roof,” wrote the poet Paul Verlaine. It always looks like the sky of another world to me, and I still find it hard to remember that it was up there all along....
...Paul Lay seeks to address that deficit with Providence Lost (Head of Zeus RRP£30, January), the history of Oliver Cromwell’s protectorate....
...Paul Raison, chairman of Old Masters for Christie’s Europe, describes the deft work as “a pure palette knife job” (est. $800,000-$1.2m)....
...The work was painted by Van Gogh as part of a series of sunflower pictures designed to brighten the walls of his rented home and impress his friend, fellow artist Paul Gauguin, on a visit to Van Gogh in...
...The second half of 2017 was rather flattered by the sale of a $450.3m Leonardo da Vinci — without this, the numbers come in pretty flat compared to the stellar start to the year....
...Job moves Loic Gouzer, a rainmaker at Christie’s who secured the blockbuster sale of a Leonardo da Vinci last year, will step down as co-chairman of postwar and contemporary art at the auction house at...
...But this tale about a UK fund house called Newton Investment Management and a portfolio manager called Paul Stephany has seen the tables turned....
...A painting sold as an unexceptional work by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art five years ago has gone up for sale with an estimate of £3m-£5m after experts concluded it was by Peter Paul Rubens, the...
...Beginning with an intense close-reading of Paul Celan’s poem “The Straitening” and pursuing its theme recursively through discussions of Jesus, Leonardo da Vinci, the linguist Victor Klemperer and many others...
...Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” (c1500) has burst into the record books as the most expensive work of art ever sold, going to a (so far) unidentified buyer for $450.3m (with fees) amid gasps and cheers...
...auctions on July 4-5 span the late 15th to 18th centuries and range in price from £10,000 — the low estimate for an early 16th-century Northern Netherlandish School “Double Portrait” — to £4m, for Peter Paul...
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