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. […]