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"Cameos, carvings and ancient jewels: Bertolami Fine Art brings to London treasures and mysteries of glyptic art" by Rossella Ariosto
Bertolami Fine Art closes the spring 2019 auction season in London with sales of numismatics, archaeology and glyptics.
The vital rhythm of Africa Two masterpieces by Mwenze Kibwanga
Mwenze Kibwanga is one of the fathers of modern Congolese painting, and one of the greatest sources of inspiration for that large group of artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo...
GERARDO DOTTORI Futurist dining room
Doctors designed it in the early 1930s at the request of one of its major collectors...
A closet of incised coins of Magna Graecia minted between the 6th and 5th centuries BC.
It does not often happen to see a closet of the same level as the one in Bertolami Fine Arts number 28 - 15 December 2016 coming up for auction...
Notes on the history of the garden: the garden in Ancient Egypt (Part I)
An excursus on the history of the garden can only begin with an analysis of the structure and role of the garden in Ancient Egypt...
In Augustus' coins the secret of his zodiac sign
From Augustus' coins comes the cue for a reflection on the typically Roman custom of interrogating astrologers with often obsessive frequency. In the Rome of the Caesars...
The Return of the Bona Dea. A sculpture of primary iconographic importance re-emerges
The Bona Dea, a statuette of Roman times that in the catalog of the archaeological auction in program...
Death in the garden: eternal source of life
November, the most drooping month of the year, covered by a dark and damp cloak, comes with its myths of death, putrid and senescent...
The Pills of Catalli: Commodus, the emperor who changed his name to Rome
That the superb bust of Hercules in the Capitoline Museums - a marble from 190 A.D. - is in fact a representation of the Emperor Commodus, is a mere obvious fact for any numismatics enthusiast...
Behind the leaves: garden art and culture
It does not often happen to see a closet of the same level as the one in Bertolami Fine Arts number 28 - 15 December 2016 coming up for auction...
Stories of artists, patrons and collectors told by Claudio Strinati: The art market in the fourteenth century
For some years the art market has been experiencing a decline in interest and, therefore, in the economic value of ancient art...