Lost_artworks

Lost artworks

Lost artworks

Piece of art that once existed

This article is about lost art. For other types of lost works, see Lost literary work and Lost media.

Lost artworks are original pieces of art that credible sources indicate once existed but that cannot be accounted for in museums or private collections or are known to have been destroyed deliberately or accidentally or neglected through ignorance and lack of connoisseurship.

Research and recovery efforts

The Art Loss Register is a commercial computerized international database which captures information about lost and stolen art, antiques and collectables. It is operated by a commercial company based in London.

In the U.S., the FBI maintains the National Stolen Art File, "a database of stolen art and cultural property. Stolen objects are submitted for entry to the NSAF by law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad."[3]

A number of search and recovery efforts were created in response to major loss events, notably:

Chronology of notable loss events

List of Wikipedia articles on notable missing artworks

See also: List of stolen paintings
  • Depictions of missing works
  • Just Judges from the Ghent Altarpiece
  • The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest (1628), by Willem van Haecht, which includes the lost Van Eyck Woman Bathing as well as the lost Portrait of Albrecht Dürer in Black Hat and Cloak
  • Cornelis Bos' engraving of Leda and the Swan by Michelangelo
  • Rubens' copy of Titian's Isabella d'Este in Red
  • Rubens' sketch of Michelangelo's Hercules marble statue
  • Renoir's Landscape with Two People as it appears in Bazille's Studio
More information Artist and work, Creation date(s) (est.) ...

Chronology of notable find events

List of Wikipedia articles on notable finds

More information Artist and work, Creation date(s) (est.) ...

Lists of Wikipedia articles on notable destroyed artworks

More information Artist and work, Creation date(s) (est.) ...

See also

Notes

  1. Possibly
  2. Companion statue Adam survives.
  3. One of a series of five canvases
  4. One of four works commissioned
  5. One of two, the other was The Rape of the Sabine Women
  6. Summer survives, Spring was destroyed, and Winter is also missing.
  7. Summer survives, Spring was destroyed, and Autumn is also missing.
  8. Thought destroyed by the artist until 1999, when studies I and II resurfaced.
  9. Except for the arm found in 1906
  10. Taken to Rome by Fabius Maximus in 209 BCE
  11. May have been removed to the Palace of Lausus, which then burned in 475.
  12. Destroyed as a symbol of monarchy
  13. A replica stands where original once stood
  14. Commissioned by Galla Placidia
  15. Replaced with mosaics by Gaetano
  16. Uncovered in 1860
  17. By the workshop of Giovanni della Robbia
  18. In the Golden Chamber
  19. Executed about 1450 copying the artist's original designs
  20. Frescoes of the Assumption and Body of Saint Christopher detached in 1880 survive
  21. Possibly covered up by Raphael before painting the Stanze
  22. Damaged by damp and finally destroyed by fire in the early 19th century[36]
  23. Companion piece, The Raising of Lazarus (transferred to canvas) is in the V&A

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Journals

  • Norris, Christopher (December 1952). "The Disaster at Flakturm Friedrichshain: a Chronicle and List of Paintings". The Burlington Magazine. XCIV (597).

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