Caravaggio

Spain blocks sale of painting because it may be a lost Caravaggio

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The Spanish government has blocked the auction of a 17th-century oil painting on suspicion it could be a lost Caravaggio masterpiece worth millions. Titled ‘Coronation with Thorns’, the canvas shows the Christ figure, blood dripping from his crown of thorns, just before his crucifixion and was set to have been sold off at Madrid’s Ansorena auction … Read more

Zoo penguins check out art at locked-down museum (and it turns out they prefer Caravaggio to Monet) 

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Culture vultures! Zoo penguins check out the art at a locked-down museum (and it turns out they prefer Caravaggio to Monet) Three Humboldt penguins visited the empty Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art  The Kansas City Zoo birds missed seeing visitors and were taken on a day out The birds were said to prefer Italian artiest Caravaggio … Read more