just for busybody (and other reatrds) thank God for the national gallery

[hobbit.]

In these days of starvation and austerity.....

National Gallery saves £45m Titian painting for the nation to enjoy (hopefully for another 200 years)​

Titian’s masterpiece Diana and Callisto has been saved for the nation in a £45 million deal.

The oil painting, one of a series of six created for King Philip II of Spain in the 16th century, was bought after a fundraising campaign which saw the National Gallery in London pledge £25 million towards the cost of keeping it in the country.

It will remain on show with another of Titian’s works, its companion piece Diana and Actaeon, and be shared between the gallery and the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh.

from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Gallery-saves-45m-Titian-painting-nation.html

This cut and paste bollocks is such fun.....

 

[phrodeau]

The article says that those paintings haven't left the UK for hundreds of years, but I got to see them when they were in Minnesota last year.

http://www.artsmia.org/titian/preview.html

 

[hobbit.]

The article says that those paintings haven't left the UK for hundreds of years, but I got to see them when they were in Minnesota last year.

http://www.artsmia.org/titian/preview.html

because like any other pig shit thick colonial you couldn't recognise a genuine brush stroke.

 

[phrodeau]

You're taking the Mail's word over mine?

 

[hobbit.]

You're taking the Mail's word over mine?

you have a word?