The co-organizer of the “The Face of Leonardo, Images of a Genius” exhibition yesterday rejected allegations that it misidentified the painter of an artwork damaged by a boy on Sunday.
TST Art of Discovery Co on Monday released a surveillance video showing a 12-year-old boy tripping over a rope barrier while walking near a painting, which organizers identified as Flowers by Italian painter Paolo Porpora (1617-1673).
The boy’s tumble left a hole the size of a fist in the painting. The damaged painting has been restored and was back on display yesterday.
According to the organizers, the 2m-tall painting is valued at more than NT$50 million (US$1.52 million).
In response to a report by the Chinese-language Apple Daily that cited a post on the Professional Technology Temple as saying that information for a painting up for auction titled Composizione con vaso di fiori — identified as being the work of 17th-century Italian painter Mario Nuzzi — looks nearly identical to the damaged painting, head of exhibition co-organizer TST Art of Discovery Co Sun Chi-hsuan (孫紀璿) said that the two paintings are different.
The estimated value of the painting as shown in Della Rocca Casa d’Aste’s catalog is 25,000 to 30,000 euros (US$28,725 to US$34,470).
Exhibition curator Andrea Rossi yesterday stood by the authenticity of the painting, saying that it had been mislabeled when it was put up for sale by an auction house a few years ago.
Rossi said that it was a 17th-century oil painting by Paolo Porpora, not Mario Nuzzi, as listed by an auction house in 2012.
Taiwan is to receive the first batch of Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 jets from the US late this month, a defense official said yesterday, after a year-long delay due to a logjam in US arms deliveries. Completing the NT$247.2 billion (US$7.69 billion) arms deal for 66 jets would make Taiwan the third nation in the world to receive factory-fresh advanced fighter jets of the same make and model, following Bahrain and Slovakia, the official said on condition of anonymity. F-16 Block 70/72 are newly manufactured F-16 jets built by Lockheed Martin to the standards of the F-16V upgrade package. Republic of China
Taiwan-Japan Travel Passes are available for use on public transit networks in the two countries, Taoyuan Metro Corp said yesterday, adding that discounts of up to 7 percent are available. Taoyuan Metro, the Taipei MRT and Japan’s Keisei Electric Railway teamed up to develop the pass. Taoyuan Metro operates the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport MRT Line, while Keisei Electric Railway offers express services between Tokyo’s Narita Airport, and the Keisei Ueno and Nippori stations in the Japanese capital, as well as between Narita and Haneda airports. The basic package comprises one one-way ticket on the Taoyuan MRT Line and one Skyliner ticket on
Many Japanese couples are coming to Taiwan to obtain donated sperm or eggs for fertility treatment due to conservatism in their home country, Taiwan’s high standards and low costs, doctors said. One in every six couples in Japan is receiving infertility treatment, Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare data show. About 70,000 children are born in Japan every year through in vitro fertilization (IVF), or about one in every 11 children born. Few people accept donated reproductive cells in Japan due to a lack of clear regulations, leaving treatment in a “gray zone,” Taichung Nuwa Fertility Center medical director Wang Huai-ling (王懷麟)
A new tropical storm formed late yesterday near Guam and is to approach closest to Taiwan on Thursday, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. Tropical Storm Pulasan became the 14th named storm of the year at 9:25pm yesterday, the agency said. As of 8am today, it was near Guam traveling northwest at 21kph, it said. The storm’s structure is relatively loose and conditions for strengthening are limited, WeatherRisk analyst Wu Sheng-yu (吳聖宇) said on Facebook. Its path is likely to be similar to Typhoon Bebinca, which passed north of Taiwan over Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and made landfall in Shanghai this morning, he said. However, it
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