Jackson Pollock Painting Sets New Auction Record
11/04/2006 – Wonder of wonders, a Jackson Pollock painting, if rumors are true, has just been sold to an art collector for a whopping $140 million, breaking records for the highest…
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Italians May Have Migrated to Venice to Flee the Barbarians
ITALY – 11/08/2008 – University of Padua researcher Paolo Mozzi asserts that satellite imagery of the area around modern Altino may reveal an old settlement from which the ancestors of Venice…
High Renaissance Painting
High Renaissance painting and sculpture in Italian Renaissance art refers to the artistic style of the early 16th century in Florence and Rome. Characteristic of High Renaissance painting and sculpture is…
Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Slightly Off Center
Italian Renaissance Mannerist artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) (pronounced Gew-seppy Arc-em-boldo) was a court painter and imperial party-planner to several sixteenth-century Italian emperors: Ferdinand I, Maximilian II, and Rudolf II. Giuseppe Arcimboldo…
For That Knee Alone, A Tale of Italian Renaissance Rivals Part 1
<< Previous [1] 2 Next >> This article was published in October, 2006 under the following title. For That Knee Alone Most people think learning history is boring, something that’s required…
Fine Art Touch Website Launched on 09-29-2006
Fine Art Touch Website Launched on 09-29-2006 For Immediate Release Nashville, Tennessee – September 29, 2006 – Harness House Publishing announced today that its newest web site, Fine Art Touch, is…
Fine Art Touch Press Releases
When Fine Art Touch releases a new press release, you can find it here first. We are constantly updating our website offering new articles and new products. When we have a…
Fine Art Auction of Nazi Looted Art Reaps a Huge Windfall for Heirs
11/08/2006 – A fine art auction in New York of Nazi looted art reaps a huge result for Christie’s Auction House. Featured in this fine art auction were works by Klimt,…
Easter Island Moia May Have Unwanted Family
RAPA NUI, 01/10/2007 – Easter Island’s moai, the gigantic monolithic statues which stand like great sentinels, today total less than 50. Those 50, however, may soon be joined by many others.…
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Those little is known of Early Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494), it is believed that the young Florentine derives his name from his father’s talent for making garlands in his goldsmithing…
