The Arts

Vinci (near Florence)

They paid $78.5 million. The value of the artwork, properties and investments he left was estimated for tax purposes at $312 million, but in reality they were worth well over $1 billion.

Leonardo de Vinci.

Pottery.

Madam Tussauds

The Pieta. He reportedly did it after overhearing someone mistakenly attribute it to sculptor Christoforo Solari.

Cubism Analytic cubists “analyzed” natural forms and reduced the forms into basic geometric parts on the two-dimensional picture plane. Colour was almost non-existent except for the use of a monochromatic scheme that often included grey, blue and ochre. Synthetic Cubism was the second main branch of Cubism developed by Picasso, Braque, Juan Gris and others between 1912 and 1919. It was seen as the first time that collage had been made as a fine art work.

Mosaic

Sculptor.

At the prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.