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...Old Masters Sotheby’s London, July 3-4 Among the star pieces of this sale of works from 14th- to 19th-century western art are Jusepe de Ribera’s “A Girl with a Tambourine (The Sense of Hearing)” (est £5m...
...”), Granada, Seville, led by Murillo and Zurbarán, and Spanish Naples, where the sensually expressive José de Ribera made his career....
...Ark”, and Andries Benedetti’s monumental, sexy “Still Life with Fruit, Oysters and Lobsters” alternate with intimate, immediate drawings: Rembrandt’s pen-and-chalk sketch of his wife Saskia at a window, Rubens...
...Other nations had concentrated cultural epochs, linked to emerging social classes and new patronage, when major figures set the agenda internationally: Leonardo in Renaissance Italy, Rubens and Rembrandt...
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