A Masterpiece From a Garbage Bag and More Secrets Behind the Saunders Collection
The Saunders Collection of Old Master Paintings is so brimming with masterpieces, so impeccably curated you’d think it was always this way. But building a world-class collection requires patience, perseverance, and sometimes even a bit of luck. From rediscovering lost treasures hidden away in garbage bags, uncovering secret masterpieces tucked beneath beds, to painstakingly restoring […]
Rare Renaissance Portrait—Once Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci—Sets $3.1 Million Record
Bernardino de’ Conti may not be a household name today, but he was ranked among the most important artists in Leonardo da Vinci’s circle in 16th-century Milan. This side-profile portrait was even attributed to Leonardo himself when it was in the Castelbarco Collection in the 1800s. Portrait of an Elegantly-Attired Noblewoman in Profile (ca. 1500) […]
Oldest Known Ten Commandments Tablet Heads to Auction
This December, Sotheby’s will auction one of the most widely known and influential texts in history: the oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments. Dating to the late Roman-Byzantine era, this remarkable artifact is approximately 1,500 years old and is the only complete tablet of the Ten Commandments still extant from this early era. […]