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Good Woman feels like two-thirds of a masterpiece: After a two-year break, The Staves have poured all their past experiences into their new album By Tim De Lisle for Event Magazine Published: 22:01 GMT, 6 February 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 6 February 2021 The Staves … Read more
Portrait that hung for years in servants’ quarters of Welsh mansion then sold for ‘a few shillings’ as job lot with other paintings… is identified as Botticelli masterpiece worth £67MILLION Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel went under the hammer at Sotheby’s auction in New York and sold to Russian clients for a … Read more
Mystery buyer who paid £13m for a David Hockney masterpiece sold by the Royal Opera House to balance its books during coronavirus is revealed – as the ROH’s own billionaire chairman (and he’s letting them keep it on show) Covent Garden institution was forced to sell portrait of chief Sir David Webster Painting set to … Read more
Banksy’s £7m Monet maker: Reclusive artist’s work parodying a Claude Monet masterpiece sells for a fortune at auction Price achieved for Show Me the Monet is the second highest yet for the artist Five collectors pushed the winning bid beyond an estimate of up to £5million The 2005 painting transforms Monet’s Water Lily Pond into a … Read more
Michelangelo’s unfinished £100m masterpiece could be sold to save 150 gallery jobs at Royal Academy of Arts The Taddei Tondo is the only marble sculpture by Michelangelo in the UK The 515-year-old sculpture, features the infant St John the Baptist, and the infant Christ with the Virgin Mary It was given to the London gallery … Read more
A woman has transformed her ugly 1930s family home into a stunning five bedroom modern masterpiece by splashing £250,000 on an enormous extension. Katy Wilson, 36, from Derbyshire, bought her detached three-bedroom property back in February 2015 and spent years applying for planning permission to overhaul the entire house. She was finally able to get … Read more
A couple who couldn’t stand to live with the outdated decor in their new home, but didn’t have the budget to renovate, have carried out an incredible budget modernisation. Neil Painter, 36, and wife Katie, 32, from Marston Green, Birmingham, moved into the family home last year with their four children aged between two and … Read more
As part of the ‘Reclaim Her Name’ campaign, a series of books by female authors who used male pen names will be re-released with the writer’s real name. The books include: Set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch, Miss Evans’ book focuses on Dorothea’s loveless marriage to the pompous, middle-aged Reverend Casaubon Middlemarch, by … Read more
Janelle Monae radiated goddess glamour in new shots for Shape magazine’s September issue. The boundary-breaking singer/actress looked like a masterpiece while recreating Botticelli’s very famous painting The Birth Of Venus in the high-concept shoot. Janelle, 34, was a sight to behold as she stood in front of a giant shell donning just gold pasties and a … Read more
The exact spot where Vincent Van Gogh painted his final masterpiece hours before he shot himself has been discovered in a French village – with the help of a postcard, researchers have claimed. Experts believe that ‘Tree Roots’ was painted on Van Gogh’s final day in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris. The tortured Dutch … Read more