Titian Painting with Outrageous Backstory Sells for More than $22 Million at Christie’s

What comes next for a painting that launched a Renaissance master’s career, hung in a Habsburg palace, was stolen twice and recovered at a bus stop? An auction record for the artist, of course. Setting an auction record is probably the least surprising thing that happened to Titian’s painting The Rest on the Flight into […]

Early Titian Painting, Stolen not Once but Twice, Headlines Christie’s Event

  A painting with a fascinating and convoluted backstory, which showed the early promise of a Renaissance master and went on to nab the attention of everyone from emperors to thieves—and was once left at a bus stop for good measure—is expected to create even more intrigue at an upcoming auction at Christie’s in London. […]