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From Pompeii to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the latest case of illegal art trafficking
The fight against the illicit market of cultural property has made great strides in recent years. But the road is still very long and there is much resistance. This is the case of the Paul Getty Museum, we have managed to discover a beautiful fresco looted by Pompeii. But in the Los Angeles museum deposit, although he returned to Italy some sixty valuable works of ancient art, he still preserved at least 350 pieces of antiquities of Italian origin, fruit of clandestine excavations, bought from antique dealers, antiquities art marches and “ traffickers” of cultural property, according to various sources.
The Prado restored the largest and heaviest panel painting in its collection
Seen to be exhibited, after its restoration, in room 49 of the Villanueva del Prado building, dedicated to the Italian School of the 4,02th century, the largest (2,67 by 300 meters) and heavy (250 kilos the panel and XNUMX the frame) from the Prado collection: 'Transfiguration of the Lord', attributed to Giulio Romano and Gianfrancesco Penni, a copy of the last work that Raphael painted before he died and which is in the Vatican Museums. This work, commissioned by Giulio de' Medici and which decorated the church of Santo Spirito degli Incurabili in Naples before his arrival in Madrid, offers a fairly exact record of the forms of the Raphaelesque original, omitting almost all the details, the landscape and the vegetation. . It has undergone a comprehensive restoration that has affected both the support and the pictorial layer and the frame, and which has had the collaboration of the Fundación Iberdrola España.
Presented the II Festival of the Bull of Madrid, "a real show"
This noon the II Fiesta del Toro of the Community of Madrid was presented at the Las Ventas bullring, which in this first phase included the Chenel Cup and the Heifer Circuit.
