Home decorating with lost masterpieces

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Last year, two missing altarpieces by Fra Angelico were discovered in Oxford. You’d think they’d have been tucked away in a forgotten treasure room at the Bodleian or something, but no, they were hanging behind the guest bedroom door in a local woman’s house. If only she’d gone to the Antiques Roadshow!

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The paintings are due to be auctioned April 19, so if you have a spare $2 million and space on your guest bedroom wall, go for it.

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4 Responses to Home decorating with lost masterpieces

  1. mdvlist says:

    Dang! Those would look perfect behind MY guest room door, but then I’d have to redecorate the rest of the room to coordinate. Just too much trouble.

  2. cicada says:

    See, if you’d only taken me up on the offer to send you decor, I could have helped you out. I could have sent a little box of Byzantine icons, tapestries and assorted statuary. But NOOO, someone didn’t want any more stuff, so I sold all my tapestries and graven images at the yardsale.

  3. mdvlist says:

    I’m upgrading from “dang” to “damn!” You didn’t tell me you had any graven images!!! We discussed flower pots and small mirrors! Actually, I know you’re pulling my leg because you couldn’t have gotten anybody to buy graven images at a yard sale in your town. Tapestries MAYBE.

  4. cicada says:

    Ok, I lied a little bit. I did have a graven Green Man, but I kept him. I also kept my wormy old icons (which I did actually have, although they are not Byzantine – I think they’re Spanish).

    I do have a small silk tapestry somewhere if you want it. I think it’s Chinese. But it’s the worse for wear. Of course if that’s the atmosphere you’re striving for. . . .

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