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NEWS ABOUT: National Gallery

National Gallery stories: 3 news summaries

 UK Art Honcho: 
 We Need More Fakes 

Could be due to planned imitation exhibition, of course

Jul 21, 09 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The head of London’s National Gallery wishes “we had more fakes,” he tells Reuters. “It’s worth having some in a collection. Not having them on display for what they pretend to be, but for what they are,” Nicholas Penny explains ahead of a 2010... More »

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art museum • art • forgery • National Gallery • Jay-ZTV • Nicholas Penny

Beloved Brit Painting Once Owned by Hitler

Venus image now in National Gallery also hung in his apartment

Mar 28, 08 11:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - A nude painting of Venus on display in London's National Gallery for 45 years—one of the gallery's most popular works—turns out to have been once owned by Adolf Hitler. The whimsical Cupid Complaining to Venus, by German master Lucas Cranach, was given to Hitler by a prominent... More »

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London • art • Adolf Hitler • National Archives • Lucas Cranach • looted art • Cupid Complaining to Venus • National Gallery • Patricia Lochridge Hartwell • Dr Birgit Schwartz

Fake-speare: Scholar Says Bard Portrait
Is a Phony

400-year-old painting was swapped, she says

Oct 25, 07 1:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - A famous portrait of Shakespeare owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company is a fake—a 19th-century imitation that replaced the older original sometime in the past decade, a German scholar claimed yesterday. “Where is the priceless 400-year-old original 'Flower' portrait?” she asks, saying that the painting appears different this... More »

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painting • English literature • William Shakespeare • Royal Shakespeare Company • National Gallery

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