A rare portrait by celebrated painter Francis Bacon sold for £43.4 million ($52.8 million) at Sotheby’s London on Wednesday, the first time the artwork has been auctioned in its almost six-decade history.”Study for Portrait of ...
You can easily imagine Pope Francis and opera singers Maria Callas and Andrea Bocelli wearing exquisite garments made of silk, some of which were created on the centuries-old looms of a little workshop, tucked away ...