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There are more than 250 churches in Venice, both consecrated and desecrated. Obviously, the sacred ones are first of all places of worship, but all together they make up a cultural, artistic and human heritage of inestimable value.

There are more than 250 churches in Venice, both consecrated and desecrated. Obviously, the sacred ones are first of all places of worship, but all together they make up a cultural, artistic and human heritage of inestimable value.

The long-lost painting "Crucifixion of Jesus Christ" by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, which was hidden for more than four centuries, was sold at auction this weekend in Versailles.

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A rare portrait of Christ by 15th century Italian old master Sandro Botticelli is up for auction at Sotheby's New York (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

From the natural studies sketches collected in the Vallardi Album to its masterpiece ""The Vision of St. Eustachius"", Antonio Pisanello's enigmatic work, between Gothic and Renaissance, is here presented with a specific focus on the...

Tate Britain, London, 9 September 2008

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The central panel of a triptych by Rubens, in which the artist reconstructed the last moments of the sacrifice at the Calvary in a complex composition of figures and volumes influenced by Caravaggio.