Christie's kicked off New York's major fall auctions Wednesday by selling a Claude Monet water-lily painting to an anonymous collector for $43.8 million.The sales were part of a larger auction of Impressionist and modern works.
Saint John the Baptist is the only work by Titian in the Prado not to have originally been in the Spanish royal collections. Rather, it came via the Museo de la Trinidad, entering the Museum in 1872 as by an “anonymous Madrid School artist of the seventeenth century”.
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As part of the Science Week, which will take place from 5 to 18 November, the Museo del Prado offers the opportunity to visit one of its leading centers of research which is devoted to restoration and conservation works: the Office of Technical Documentation.
Enjoyed the Edvard Munch exhibition at Tate Modern? Why not travel to Norway to discover the places that inspired him, and see more of his works.