Mona Lisa’s Skeleton Found?

Archaeologists say they have found a complete skeleton buried beneath the floor of an abandoned nunnery in Florence, Italy, which might belong to Lisa Gherardini, the woman believed to have inspired Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. The bones were found…
Mystery of The Fake Art

NEARLY 17 years ago Glafira Rosales, a little-known art dealer from Long Island, walked into Knoedler & Company’s grand Upper East Side town house with a painting she said was by Mark Rothko.         She showed the small board with…
The strange world of fake and fraudulent art.

Knoedler & Company Knoedler & Company art gallery, which had been around for 165 years, closed after allegations of selling fraudulent paintings surfaced. Investigators discovered that paintings supposedly done by classical artists were actually made by one person in Queens,…
The Mona Lisa Mystery,

The real Mona Lisa mystery The most famous portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci is an unresolved mystery of all times. Two of the biggest mysteries are her identity and the way she smiles. The most recent explanation about this identity…
The Mystery of the Munich Nazi Art Trove

Historic Police Raid In February 2012, German authorities raided the apartment of 75-year-old collector Cornelius Gurlitt and seized 1,406 works of art, a spectacular trove with a value that has yet to be estimated. It includes works by Liebermann, Marc…