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From Jan Vermeer to Renoir: Hidden paintings have been found concealed behind famous artworks in 2021. How do art restorers reveal these details?

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IN DRESDEN, a city renowned for the picture-perfect restoration by which it looks the same and yet entirely strange, an old tale of love and deception is playing out. Since Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, c. 1657–59, arrived in the Saxon capital from Paris in 1742, a girl in a green dress has been intently studying a letter by pale daylight against a white wall. As other of the Dutch master’s pictures, and indeed many of those made by his contemporaries, tend to do, the...

During November, there were five new detentions of a foreign flagged vessel in a UK port. In response to one of the recommendations of Lord Donaldson’s inquiry into the prevention of pollution from merchant shipping, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) publishes details of the foreign flagged vessels detained in UK ports each month. The ...

Banksy Mural Saves Reading Gaol - Largest Vermeer Retrospective Announced - Stonehenge Exhibition For British Museum.......

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that three foreign flagged ships remained under detention in UK ports during November 2021 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection.

It's not uncommon for museums all over the world to put on a show dedicated to painter Johannes Vermeer, whose intimate pictures of 17th-century Dutch life have enthralled audiences for decades. It is rare, however, for many of his surviving paintings, roughly 35 to be reunited for a major show in the artist's home country.…

Plus, Oman is joining the Venice Biennale for the first time, and stolen Nepalese artifacts are popping up around the world.

Rijksmuseum aims to bring together all the works by Girl with a Pearl Earring painter that are fit to travel

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