Leading artists auction self portraits for Face Britain – The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts

LONDON.- Quentin Blake, Angela de la Cruz, Tracey Emin, Ryan Gander, Rankin, Gerald Scarfe, Bob & Roberta Smith and Gavin Turk are amongst the high-profile artists contributing self portraits to the Face Britain project. As well as these artists, a wide range of well known faces from the worlds of film, TV, theatre, sport, music, fashion and literature are also donating self-portraits which will go under the hammer in aid of this important and timely cause. Face Britain is the UK’s [...]

First exhibition on Pietro Perugino, Raphael’s Master at Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen

MUNICH.- As a highlight and to conclude the Alte Pinakothek’s 175th jubilee celebrations, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen are staging the first exhibition on Pietro Perugino – one of the most successful artists of the Italian Renaissance – to be held outside Italy. It unites more than 30 works from all phases of the master’s creative output, focussing in particular on the heyday of the artist’s career in the late 15th century. ‘The Vision of Saint Bernard’, an altarpiece completed around 1490 which King Ludwig [...]