Manubu Mabe was a Japanese-Brazilian painter. In the late 1950s, Mabe won the top award in São Paulo’s Contemporary Art Salon, the top award as Brazil’s best painter in the São Paulo Bienal, and the top honors for artists under 35…
The Haunted Dibbuk Box The Dibbuk box is a wine cabinet that is supposedly haunted by a dibbuk. If you’re wondering what a dibbuk is, it’s a restless, malicious spirit that is believed to be able to haunt or posseses…
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 painting pictured above, according to Wikipedia, is a self-portrait of and by a 19th century Spanish artist named Antonio María Esquivel. Per other accounts, though, Esquivel didn’t create the picture — it was one of the many works by…
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 Last Supper” has also been the target of much speculation, usually centered around supposed hidden messages or hints found within the painting. Slavisa Pesci, an information technologist, created an interesting visual effect by overlaying a semitransparent,…
Often referred to as “The Lost Leonardo,” The Battle of Anghiari is a painting depicting four horsemen in armed combat during the Battle of Anghiari in 1440. Originally planned for the Hall of the Five Hundred, the meeting chamber of…
Six beautiful tapestries depicting the hunt of a unicorn are on permanent display at the Musee de Cluny in Paris. They’ve been called the “Mona Lisa of woven artworks,” but no one knows who created them. Despite their being made…
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…
The unexplained mystery of the missing masterpiece It was lost for so long that it had assumed mythical status for art historians. Some doubted whether it even existed. But a 500-year-old mystery was apparently solved today after a painting attributed…
This lie resulted from a classic case of wanting to please the critics. Han van Meegeren was an artist who felt underappreciated and thought he could trick art experts into admitting his genius. In the early 20th century,…
Did Aliens visit us in ancient times? what better place to look than ancient art works. Around the world hundreds of UFO’s and starange Alien like beings have been recorded in old artwork and cave paintings. Some of these drawings…
