Art Journal
La Casa de los Vientos
¡FOR SALE! DIEGO RIVERA STUDIO IN ACAPULCO Rivera murals add value to Mexican property.
A mansion on the market in Mexico’s legendary beach resort of Acapulco has an unusual selling point — five murals by one of the country’s most renowned artists, Diego Rivera.
Three of the murals are publicly unseen, late works by the world famous Mexican artist who died more than 50 years ago made and his name painting massive murals on buildings...
Fingerprint unmasks original Da Vinci painting
The ghost of a fingerprint in the top left corner of an obscure portrait appears to have confirmed one of the most extraordinary art discoveries.
The 33 x 23cm (13 x 9in) picture, in chalk, pen and ink, appeared at auction at Christie’s, New York, in 1998, catalogued as “German school, early 19th century”. It sold for $19,000 . Now a growing number of leading art experts agree that it is almost certainly by Leonardo da Vinci and worth about...




