Lange verschollenes Velázquez-Portrait Olimpia Maidalchinis vor Versteigerung

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Baroque feminist, pope’s lover … the woman behind a lost Velázquez

Donna Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj rose to the heights in the Vatican. Now a work by Velázquez, unseen since 1724, is set to fetch millions at Sotheby’s

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For almost 300 years, it was thought lost or destroyed. But now a portrait of one of history’s most formidable women by one of the world’s greatest painters has been rediscovered – and it will go under the hammer next month.

The Portrait of Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj, painted in the mid-17th century by the Spanish master Diego Velázquez, has undergone painstaking authentication and conservation by Sotheby’s since it was brought to the auction house’s Amsterdam office 18 months ago.

Olimpia, la rockstar barocca che amò un Papa dietro il Velázquez ritrovato

Il ritratto della donna, femminista ribelle ante litteram (di cui si erano perse le tracce fino agli anni Ottanta) va all’asta ad Amsterdam. Base 2 milioni di sterline

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Link zum Gemälde bei Sotheby's mit PDF zum Ausdrucken.

Hier zwei andere Porträts von Olimpia Maidalchini aus der Galleria Doria Pamphilj:

Olimpia Maidalchini

• Simone-Clio
• 7. Januar 2017

Olimpia Maidalchini

• Simone-Clio
• 7. Januar 2017

 

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Zusatz: BBC Two - Newsnight, Missing Velázquez masterpiece found after 300 years

 

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Der Hammer des Auktionators fiel gestern Abend bei £2,495,000.

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