Etiket: Literature
Painting that had been in a French apartment for years sold for 2.8 million euros | Art & Literature
The painting has been passed down within the family for generations and was renamed “The Guardian Angel of the Family”. The family knew that the canvas was valuable, but did…
The jury of the Libris Literature Prize has lost its way
When the AKO Literature Prize was awarded on 11 May 1993, there was no doubt in advance as to who. ‘Will the prize go to Mulisch or Mulisch?’ read a…
The writer Noé Jitrik was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature
A group of renowned Argentine writers and intellectuals proposed this week to writer and scholar Noah Jitrik as a candidate for Nobel Prize for Literature. Khitrikborn in the city of…
Rare work by Botticelli auctioned for $45 million in New York | Art & Literature
After a bidding duel of approximately seven minutes, the work, “Christ as a Man of Sorrows” was auctioned for a total price of 45 million euros. Sotheby’s had previously estimated…
Oh man! Remembrance of those who died early
Oliver Ohman The expressionist poet Georg Heym died 110 years ago in the icy Havel. Our reporter remembers a prematurely completed man who is resting on Fürstenbrunner Weg The poet…
The Netherlands definitively agrees to purchase ‘De Vaandeldrager’ by Rembrandt | Art & Literature
On Tuesday, the Dutch Senate approved the purchase of the painting ‘De Vaandeldrager’ by Rembrandt. The Dutch state is allocating 150 million euros for this, the remaining 25 million will…
Levi and Ragghianti. A friendship between painting, politics and literature: on display in Lucca
“Natura morta” by Carlo Levi, 1922-24 (photo by Corrado de Grazia). Lhe Nazi occupation of Florence, the cradle of friendship between the art historian Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and Carlo Levi,…
Almost three million euros for a single page of Spider-Man comic book | Art & Literature
Comic book hero Spider-Man has broken an auction record. A loose page from a comic book in which the superhero wears his black costume for the first time has been…
717 billion pixels: microscope photo reveals the smallest details of The Night Watch | Art & Literature
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has succeeded in taking a new photo of The Night Watch that is so sharp that even the tiniest detail can be seen. This ‘ultra high…