Got a spare £8 million lying about? Then you could snap up the jewel-studded book of hours–bargain!
A rare, jewelled prayer book that once belonged to by King François I of France and has been in UK collections since 1720 could be leaving the country. Art experts… Read more »
This week in 1913: Mona Lisa fever hits Italy, Ezra Pound and James Joyce have “a hate or two in common”
Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the… Read more »
This week in 1913: the Mona Lisa is found, “Suprematism” is unveiled
Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the… Read more »