Tag: Art history
Exhibition “Espressioni con frazioni” at the Castello di Rivoli – Culture
A gaunt body with a crown of thorns sitting on a coffin. The emaciated figure is covered with bleeding wounds and is supported with difficulty by three weeping angels. Experts…
Christie’s is auctioning off an old drawing. Is it by Michelangelo? – Culture
She was once a grande dame who demanded respect and admiration and experienced it: connoisseurship. At some point in the 20th century that was over, the grand old lady was…
Sculpture from Aschaffenburg Pompejanum found in Austin – Panorama
There is a well-known difference between the price and the value of a work of art. For example, if you look at what the works of former Wall Street broker…
Bettina Beckert is the new director of Sotheby’s Munich – Munich
Bettina Beckert has headed the Munich office of Sotheby’s, the famous London auction house, since November. She is currently in the process of auctioning off part of Karl Lagerfeld’s estate.…
War in Ukraine: “It’s about intellectual survival” – Kultur
How much power do artists like Valery Gergiev have in their country? More than the West thinks, says Russian art historian Ekaterina Degot. A conversation about the war, cultural boycott…
Theater of War: Exhibition “Salamis 480” in Munich – Culture
Plop, the Persians couldn’t swim. When their ships were rammed by the Greeks, they fell into the water in the strait near the island of Salamis, close to Athens and…
Favorites of the week: four recommendations from the SZ editorial team – culture
The volume “Der Schwarze Spiegel” Open detailed view This is what it looks like after the nuclear war: scene from “Black Mirror”. (Photo: Nicolas Mahler / Suhrkamp) Sometimes disaster and…
Art historian Klaus Gallwitz is dead – culture
The art historian and long-time Städel director Klaus Gallwitz is dead. The 91-year-old died on October 21 with his family in Karlsruhe, as his wife Bénédicte Peyrat announced on Monday.…
By SZ authors: Kia Vahland on Caravaggio and Velázquez – culture
In the Baroque era, scientific progress collided with religion, climate change during the Little Ice Age and the Thirty Years’ War of the Denominations shook Europe, global trade revolutionized the…