Lorenzo Tiepolo (1736-1776)

This painting by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) is the modello of a work now lost, commissioned in 1743 for the Elector of Saxony, Augustus III of Poland, and intended for the royal collections in Dresden.

With this hitherto unknown sanguine by the master, his very small corpus of male nudes is enriched by an invaluable work. It will also be a grand first in the auction room, since the only known male figures by the master are all in museums.

Thanks to the help of the Société des Amis du Louvre, the museum was able to purchase a Giambattista Tiepolo at a private sale. It is a fresco of over 3 meters high, depicting Juno in the midst of the clouds, which originally decorated the ceiling of a Venetian palace before being detached. Its price is not known.

The drawing by the Italian rococo artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was uncovered in the loft of Weston Hall manor house in England. It will go under the hammer at Dreweatts auction house on November 16 and 17, and “conservative estimates” place it at between £150,000 and £250,000. (BBC)

The owners' decision to sell the seven grisaille canvases painted by Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) for the decor of Palazzo Valmarana ai Nani, on loan since 2017 to the Palladio Museum in Vicenza, put their exhibition in question, until they were preempted by the Italian state on July

The embodiment of loyalty to the papacy, Matilda of Canossa was revered by Urban VIII over five centuries after her death. The pope commissioned a statue of the countess from the great Baroque sculptor after having her remains transferred to Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

Stolen in 1922, these works came from the funerary monument of the brothers Pietro and Lorenzo Morosini in Venice. The Florence unit for the protection of cultural heritage managed to identify them when they were put on sale on the web for €100,000.

Alain Moatti (1939-2023) was an erudite antiquarian and a tireless curiosity seeker, renowned in particular for his knowledge of bronzes and majolica. He left a library in which sculpture and the fine arts occupy pride of place.

The building, constructed in 1724 by a student of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, began welcoming artists from Italy and abroad on May 8. Italian businessman Flavio Misciattelli created the foundation, wishing to establish a dialogue between the Chigi Zondadari family and contemporary art.

Poland will formally ask Russia for the return of seven paintings currently in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. The paintings date between the 14th and 18th centuries and include Two Saints by Spinello Aretino and Adoration of the Child by Lorenzo di Credi. Previous requests have been ignored.