MAGAZINE
AN AUCTION TO MAKE CHILDREN SMILE
In the year that Guido Strazza, Italy's greatest living engraver, celebrated his 100th birthday, the presence of one of his unmistakable lithographs in the...
HISTORY AND LEGEND OF COGNAC NAPOLEON 1811
Wine and spirits auctions can provide excitement even for teetotalers. It happens, for example, when one comes across bottles such as the one that will be put up for auction on Tuesday, December 20,...
COLLECTING ANCIENT BRONZES
Pietro Tacca, one of the most innovative and spectacular sculptors of the Baroque period, is one of the protagonists of "Cuprum. Small Bronzes from the 14th to the 19th Century," the auction of antique bronzes that...
A GAETANO ZUMBO DEATH THEATER UP FOR AUCTION
On Wednesday, Dec. 7, during the second day that Bertolami Fine Art is dedicating to a grand sale of jewelry, watches, silverware and antique ivories, a choice...
OLD MASTERS AUCTION AMID ATTRIBUTIVE CONUNDRUMS AND CERTAIN MASTERPIECES
Bertolami Fine Art's fall Old Masters auction returns. The catalog features more than 300 lots of drawings and paintings made between the 15th and 19th centuries including masterpieces of certain attribution and exciting attributional enigmas.
By Scarlett Ariosto
HIGHLIGHTS AND TRIVIA FROM THE FALL AUCTION OF ANTIQUE POTTERY
In Bertolami Fine Art's antique ceramics auction curious and rare objects of ancient design often linked to stories
extraordinary.
Among the highlights is a small sculpture coming out of the workshop of that Giovanni Santi, an excellent and learned painter
of Urbino, who was crushed by the fame of an all too cumbersome son, the immense Raphael.
MARIA PIA FANFANI'S LEGACY AT AUCTION
On Wednesday 23 June, the first part of the sale will be held, auctioning off the furnishings and objects present in the last house inhabited by Maria Pia and Amintore Fanfani.
STORY OF AN ENFANT PRODIGE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
A corpus of his drawings from the Ugo Ojetti Collection in the 88th Modern and Contemporary Art auction scheduled for Friday, February 26 - by Scarlett Matassi
Korean ceramics. The earth, coming to life as the air pushes into space - by Francesco Morena
The earth, coming to life, as the air pushes through space
THE CHARITY OF SAN MARTINO - An unknown terracotta between Pietro and Lorenzo Bernini - by Giuliana Gardelli
The present study starts from the discovery in a private collection of a rectangular terracotta slab measuring 60 x 42 cm, ending in a vaulted apsidal type at the top.
PLAGUE AND COUNTERFEITING OF WORKS OF ART by Leonardo Rocco
The purpose of this text is to clarify the confusion of rules on the illegal conduct of plagiarism and counterfeiting.
STARS AND COINS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD by Fiorenzo Catalli
What relationship might exist between stars and coins in the ancient world?