The unmissable appointments dedicated to the Old Masters in London are getting closer. During the first days of July Christie’s and Sotheby’s will “challenge” each other in this sector proposing to the audience works realised by very important artists from the 15th-18th century.

A year after the death of Robert Rauschenberg, May 12, 2008, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, celebrates the memory of this great artist with the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts. Comprised of approximately forty works, this exhibition, on view May 30 through September 20, 2009, presents a little

After half a millennium art can still reserve nice surprises. A very rare etching by the famous Flemish artist Pieter Paul Rubens has been retrieved in Rome. Traces of the work had been lost since 1836 when in his book “The classical prints” professor Giulio Ferrario referred to a study of the artist based on Leonardo da Vinci’s painting entitled The Last Supper. Since that moment critics and experts had looked for it without results, until a few days ago when this precious work of art was retrieved thanks to a Roman psychologist. Gilberto Di Benedetto, who owned an anonymous print inherited by his father 12 years ago, decided to show it to professor Andrea De Liberis and professor Alfredo Pasolino with the intention of selling it to finance a study on  electro-iontophoresis. This led to the surprising discovery: Gilberto Di Benedetto discovered that he owned a precious etching and had a fortune in his hands. The market quotation of Rubens’s etchings is high, but not stratospheric; perhaps he is one of the few old master’s even able to get hammer prices similar to those of contemporary art.