Printed in 1843, the hand-coloured card originally sold for one shilling and shaped the popular tradition The world’s first printed Christmas card, an artwork created in 1843 that went on to spawn a global industry, has gone on show at the Charles Dickens Museum in London. Designed by Henry Cole and illustrated …
Vessel was awarded to first modern Olympic marathon winner before ending up in Göring’s collection The extraordinary story of an ancient wine cup that was awarded to the marathon winner of the first modern Olympics before being smuggled out of Greece by a notorious Nazi has been brought to light after its …
PARIS (Reuters) – A major exhibition marking 500 years since the death of Leonardo da Vinci opened in Paris on Thursday but there was intrigue over whether the “Salvator Mundi” painting of Christ, one of the best-known works attributed to the master, would make a late appearance. The exhibition at …
An investigation found that Bible fragments in a museum started by the owners of the arts-and-crafts chain had been illegally taken from the university. LONDON — A trans-Atlantic investigation conducted by a Washington museum and a London-based archaeological group has accused a prominent Oxford University professor of stealing and selling …
The Louvre has asked to loan Salvator Mundi for a major exhibition – but many doubt the much-disputed work will make an appearance Questions over its authenticity have raged over Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi for more than a decade. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Will it or won’t it appear? This …
PARIS (Reuters) – Visitors to the Louvre in Paris should have a clearer view of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” after the museum installed a new, more transparent form of bullet-proof glass to protect the world’s most famous painting. The Mona Lisa has been behind safety glass since the early …
President Xi Jinping has pushed “cultural self-confidence” as a signature policy, and one of the beneficiaries has been the former home of emperors, neglected no longer. BEIJING — For much of the past century, the Forbidden City has been an imposing void in the otherwise bustling heart of Beijing. The 180-acre …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The spacesuit astronaut Neil Armstrong wore during his mission to the moon went on public display for the first time in 13 years on Tuesday, at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum exactly 50 years to the day when Apollo 11 launched into space. Armstrong’s son Rick …
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s Acropolis Museum opened an excavation site underneath its modern building on Friday, allowing visitors for the first time to walk through an ancient Athenian neighbourhood that survived from the Classical era to Byzantine times. A part of an ancient neighbourhood is seen at the newly opened …
The Louvre was shuttered on Monday, leaving hordes of tourists outside amid its famous glass pyramids. The reason? The Paris museum’s security and reception staff were on strike, protesting “unprecedented deterioration of conditions” amid record crowds. The museum, located in a former royal palace on the city’s Right Bank, attracted …