Lost frescoes to greet visitors when Italy s Uffizi reopens
COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press
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1of3In this photo made available Thursday, April 22, 2021, a full-length and life-size fresco depicting the young Cosimo II de Medici, with the allegories of Florence and Siena, to be attributed to the painter Bernardino Poccetti (1548-1612) is seen on a wall after renovation works in the underground of the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence, Italy, Friday, April 16, 2021 . Recently discovered frescoes and new rooms filled with statuary will give visitors “a glorious introduction” Florence’s Uffizi Galleries when the museum reopens after months of COVID closure. Starting with the reopening, visitors will enter the museum from the west wing, facing the Arno River, where workers restoring galleries have discovered hidden beneath plaster and on ceilings frescoes dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. (Uffizi Gallery via AP)APShow MoreShow Less
Botticelli Portrait Sells for $92.2 Million, Setting New Record
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In 1982, real estate developer Sheldon Solow bought the Botticelli portrait “Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel” for $1.3 million. Much has changed in the years since then in the art world; Solow himself died last November. As for the Botticelli painting? The fate of Solow’s vast art collection was, until recently the subject of heated debate. Would it be auctioned off or, as Solow hoped, end up as part of a new museum?
If a
New York Timesarticle on the Botticelli auction is any indication, the proceeds from the sale of the portrait might end up funding the museum. That’s because “Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel” sold for $92.2 million at a Sotheby’s auction last week.
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A worker at Sotheby s Auctions poses with Sandro Botticelli s ‘Young Man Holding a Roundel’ during a preview where it is expected to fetch in excess of US$80 million in Manhattan January 22, 2021. Reuters pic
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NEW YORK, Jan 29 A portrait by Italian renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli sold for US$92 million (RM372 million) at an online Sotheby’s auction yesterday, smashing the record price for the artist.
“Young Man Holding a Roundel,” believed to have been painted in the 1470s or 1480s, is considered one of Botticelli’s finest portraits and is the highlight of Sotheby’s Masters Week sale in New York.