Christie s Classic Week Old Masters Evening Sale includes masterpiece from Belloto s early career
Bernardo Bellotto (1721-1780), View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi, circa 1745-47. Estimate £12,000,000-18,000,000. © Christie s Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON
.-Christies announced Bernardo Bellottos majestic View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi as one of the leading highlights in the forthcoming Old Masters Evening Sale, taking place live on 8 July at Christies King Street. This is part of a marquee series of sales comprising this seasons Classic Week calendar.
Bernardo Bellotto painted View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi in circa 1745-47, when the artist was still in his mid-twenties. This work is the supreme masterpiece from the artists early career, along with its pair Verona from the Ponte Nuova looking upstream with the Castel San Pietro (Powis Castle, the National Trust).
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Christie s announces highlights included in the Classic Week auctions
A rare contemporary broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence: the Goodspeed-Sang-Streeter copy. Continental Congress, 1776. © Christie s Images Ltd 2021.
$700,000-900,000
NEW YORK, NY
.-Christies announces that Classic Week, a marquee series of seven live and online auctions that feature pieces from antiquity to the 20th century. Sales will be held from 8-23 April and include Old Master paintings and sculpture, European Art, Antiquities, Books and Manuscripts and two single-owner auctions, The Kagan Collection and The Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg Collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed books. The exhibition at Christies Rockefeller Center will be by appointment only starting 17 April.
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Excavated in 1900 by Paul du Chatellier in a barrow and forgotten for a century, this ornamented slab was recently rediscovered in the Musée dArchéologie nationale (MAN Museum of National Archaeology) and was the subject of a significant study that allowed it to be interpreted as the oldest cartographical representation of a known territory in Europe, a probable marker of the political power of a principality of the early Bronze Age.
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.- A Bronze-age slab first uncovered in 1900 in western France is the oldest map in Europe, according to a study released this week. The 4,000-year-old object, known as the Saint-Belec slab, is engraved with markings that represent part of the Black Mountains region of western France, said Yvan Pailler, an archaeologist and one of the authors of the study published in the Bulletin of the French Prehistoric Society. Today, it is the oldest map of a territory in Europe, he said. You can see
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