{"id":33165,"date":"2013-01-31T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T13:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=33165"},"modified":"2013-01-31T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T13:11:18","slug":"botticellis-madonna-and-child-painting-solid-10-million-33165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/botticellis-madonna-and-child-painting-solid-10-million-33165\/","title":{"rendered":"Botticelli&#8217;s Madonna and Child painting solid $10 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/botticelli-virgin-and-child-with-st-john-the-baptist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33174\" title=\"botticelli-virgin-and-child-with-st-john-the-baptist\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/botticelli-virgin-and-child-with-st-john-the-baptist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/botticelli-virgin-and-child-with-st-john-the-baptist.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/botticelli-virgin-and-child-with-st-john-the-baptist-174x220.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/botticelli-virgin-and-child-with-st-john-the-baptist-285x360.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>A Madonna and Child painting by the Italian master Sandro Botticelli has fetched $10.4 million at Christie\u2019s Renaissance sale in New York, setting a record for the artist at auction.<\/h1>\n<p>Botticelli&#8217;s tour de force, dating to the early 1490s, sold over the phone after just a few minutes of bidding. The buyer&#8217;s identity has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The painting traveled to Hong Kong, London and Moscow before it was sold at Rockefeller Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>The monumental work, &#8220;Madonna and Child with Young Saint John the Baptist&#8221;, has been dubbed by art collectors &#8216;the Rockefeller Madonna&#8217; after John D. Rockefeller acquired it in the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>Botticelli\u2019s previous auction record was set in 2006 when his \u201cMadonna and Child, with a pomegranate, in an alcove with roses behind\u201d went under the hammer for $7.5 million at Christie\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The highest-grossing lot featured at Christie\u2019s Renaissance sale was The Madonna and Child by Fra Bartolommeo, painted in the 1490s under the influence of Leonardo da Vinci. The painting sold for $12.9 million in New York.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Madonna and Child painting by the Italian master Sandro Botticelli has fetched $10.4 million at Christie\u2019s Renaissance sale in New York, setting a record for the artist at auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,74,63,17,1,118,14],"tags":[44860,44855,44856,44858,44859,44857,4221,44862,44863,44861,27876],"class_list":["post-33165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-culture","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-artist","tag-boticelli","tag-boticelli-painting","tag-boticelli-painting-sold-10-million","tag-christies-renaissance-sale","tag-madona-and-child","tag-new-york","tag-painting","tag-recor-sale-painting","tag-renaissance-boticelli","tag-sandro-boticelli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}