Met Museum to Acquire Rediscovered Renaissance Painting Admired by Vasari

The Met Museum Acquired a Rediscovered Rosso Fiorentino Painting, and Other News

Plus, Art Dubai has been postponed and Australia will host its first Takashi Murakami retrospective. Rosso Fiorentino Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist, 1512/13. PRIVATE COLLECTION/COURTESY THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART The Met Museum acquired a recently rediscovered significant Renaissance painting. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired a recently rediscovered painting by […]

Met Museum to Acquire Rediscovered Renaissance Painting Admired by Vasari

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced Thursday that it had acquired a recently rediscovered Renaissance painting of significant art historical importance. Layers of paint were removed during a recent conservation to reveal the figure of Saint John the Evangelist in the canvas’s lower-right portion. With the overpaint now gone, the painting has now been identified as Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist (1512/1513) by…