Stolen Treasures return to Cyprus

Some of the world’s finest religious art, recovered through a unique police sting operation in 1997, will finally be restored to the people of Cyprus by the German authorities at a ceremony in Munich tomorrow, July 16. The objects are part of a cache of thousands of mosaics, icons and other cultural objects which were found in the possession of…

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Miniatures Exhibition in Brussels

I first saw Michel Hanse’s exquisite miniatures at an artifacts’ open market on a rainy day in Brussels last August. What is special about Hanse, is that he genuinely represents a whole micro-world in his works. His human miniatures are not just individual works of art one each; they all make part of a much bigger picture, an ongoing action…

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“The single most beautiful object in gold on the planet” – ancient Greek Queens’ and Princesses’ fashion in Oxford

This is the phrase in which historian Robin Lane Fox describes one of the exhibits at the “Heracles to Alexander the Great: Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the age of Democracy”exhibition. Referring to one of the queens’ necklaces displayed since Thursday at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Robin Lane Fox named it “the single most beautiful object in gold on the…

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