Art Historian Silvano Vinceti Claims Male Model Behind Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa

ROME (AP).- A male apprentice, longtime companion and possible lover of Leonardo da Vinci was the main influence and a model for the “Mona Lisa” painting, an Italian researcher said Wednesday. But the researcher, Silvano Vinceti, said the portrait represents a synthesis of Leonardo’s scientific, artistic and philosophical beliefs. Because the artist worked at it at various intervals for many years, he was subjected to different influences and sources of inspiration, and the canvas is full of hidden symbolic meanings. [...]

Fernando Marías disputes the authorship of the sculpture attributed to El Greco.

Toledo (Spain) – The professor of Art History at the Autonomous says that carving  is unconnected a the world of El Greco and the gallery stands in the lower back bears a signature little-known painter. The Spanish art historian specializing in El Greco Fernando Marías has disputed the authorship of the sculpture Ecce Homo, which has been attributed to the Spanish painter and will go on sale for 6 million euros in the next edition of the Dutch fair TEFAF. [...]

708,000 Persons have Visited the PHotoEspaña 2010 Exhibitions

MADRID.- The final results of PHotoEspaña 2010 were made public yesterday morning in Madrid at a press conference given by Claude Bussac, director of PHotoEspaña. At the gathering, the press was provided with general statistics on attendance and participation in the 13th International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, which will come to a close on Sunday, 25 July. Claude Bussac highlighted the interest and enthusiasm that both experts and the general public have shown in the festival’s activities and [...]

Center for Fine Arts in Brussels Announces El Greco Exhibition

BRUSSELS.- Regarded today as one of the founders of the Spanish School of painting, El Greco has not, however, always enjoyed that lofty status. At the time of his death in Toledo in 1614, Europe was wildly enthusiastic about the then fashionable naturalism of the Caravaggesque style, poles apart from his own brilliant Mannerism. El Greco’s work soon went out of fashion and remained relatively neglected down the centuries – until 1908, when the art historian Manuel Bartolomé Cossío devoted [...]

Original Works and Multiples by Joseph Beuys at Mary Boone Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- The Mary Boone Gallery presents at its Chelsea location “Joseph Beuys: We are the Revolution”, a comprehensive exhibition of original works and multiples from the Hall Collection by this influential German artist. The exhibition has been organized and installed by independent curator and art historian Dr. Pamela Kort. Beginning with a pencil drawing made while Beuys was still a student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, through the notable “plastic work” (sculpture) Horn of 1969, to a suite [...]