Artistic guelder roses? No, floral vases!
The delicate, fragile, and beautifully lifelike, vases known as “guelder rose” are eerily decorative works…
Veronica Etro: Looking back to look forward
One would be hard pressed to find a more intricate fusion of art and fashion…
Bulgari: glamour, glory and dolce vita
“The only word that Elizabeth knows in Italian is Bulgari!”, Richard Burton said about his film partner and future wife Liz Taylor. In fact, since the 1950s, Bulgari is associated more than…
Red, yellow, Mercedes: 2 classic cars
Two stars, a red Mercedes and a yellow Mercedes, debuted at the auction of classic cars at ClassicExpo Salzburg on 15 October 2016!
Piotr Tutukin: mystery of a palace church
A rare work of St. Petersburg interior painting divulges a secret: a tsar’s palace whose sacral furnishings did not conform to the strict rules of the Orthodox Church, the artwork will be…
Venetian Luminaries
Tintoretto and Veronese inspired one another in 16th-century Italy. These Venetian artists are coming face to face on 18 October 2016, when two of their paintings are included in Dorotheum’s sale of…
James Francis Edward Stuart: the king that never was
The portrait of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart as Prince of Wales by Nicolas de Largillière is an important rediscovery. Previously only known from an engraving by Gérard Edelinck, it testifies to the…