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Cranach’s Adam and Eve united in a single frame
Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – 1553)
Uffizi, Florence
Silenus and Bacchus (c.1572) shine again in the Uffizi.
Jacopo Del Duca (1520 – 1604
Uffizi, Florence
Restoration of Masaccio’s Holy Trinity, Santa Maria Novella, Florence.
Holy Trinity (c.1426)
Masaccio (1401 – 1428)
National Gallery of Art acquires Anne Vallayer-Coster still life
Still Life with Flowers in an Alabaster Vase and Fruit (1783)
Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744 – 1818)
Mauritshuis Acquires a Tulip by Balthasar van der Ast
Vase with a “Zomerschoon” or “Summer Beauty” Tulip (1625)
Balthasar van der Ast (1593 – 1657)
National Gallery acquired painting by Abraham Bloemaert
Lot and his Daughters (1624)
Abraham Bloemaert (Netherlandish, 1566 – 1651)
Rembrandt Copper Plate donated to Rijksmuseum
The Stoning of Saint Stephen, Copper Plate (1635)
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 – 1669)
National Gallery acquires Saint Bartholomew by Bernardo Cavallino
Saint Bartholomew (c.1642)
Bernardo Cavallino (1616 – 1656)
Rijksmuseum Acquires Four Silver Salt Cellars by Johannes Lutma
Four Silver Salt Cellars (1639)
Johannes Lutma (1584 – 1669)
Mauritshuis Acquires Painting by Adriaen Brouwer
“Superbia” or “Vanity” (c.1635)
Adriaen Brouwer (c.1605 – 1638)