The National Gallery of Art announced last week that Andaleeb Badiee Banta will join the museum as Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings and will assume the role on January 12, [...] Read More
Museum News
Restoration of Monumental Rubens Painting Started at KMSKA
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KMSKA) has begun the restoration of Peter Paul Rubens’s gigantic altarpiece Enthroned Madonna Adored by Saints (ca. 1628). Due to the monumental size of the [...] Read More
M Leuven Acquires Drawing from the Circle of Rogier van der Weyden
M Leuven announced the acquisition of a unique fifteenth-century drawing from the circle of Rogier van der Weyden. The Swooning of the Blessed Virgin and two Marys (ca. 1458-1469) was previously on [...] Read More
Rijksmuseum Acquires Four Silver Salt Cellars by Johannes Lutma after Restitution Process
The Rijksmuseum has purchased four outstanding silver salt cellars made by the renowned Amsterdam silversmith Johannes Lutma. These partially gilded objects are among the most important examples of [...] Read More
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Resolves Ownership of Adriaen van Ostade Painting
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie have reached a resolution with the heirs of two Jewish art dealers to retain a painting by Adriaen van Ostade that was promised to the [...] Read More
Louvre’s Van Dyck Collection Published as Multi-format Catalogue Raisonné
The Musée du Louvre has published a French-language catalogue raisonné of its collection of paintings by Anthony van Dyck in four simultaneous formats: a print book, an online book (web-based), an [...] Read More