VENICE .- Over 70 works from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, including 20 paintings by great sixteenth to eighteenth-century Venetian masters, which return to Venice after centuries, appear alongside drawings and paintings from the Venetian civic collections,...

Salomone de' Grassi (active first half 15th century) The Trinity, oil on panel, gold ground, 71x40 cm. Estimate: € 50.000-70.000. © Sotheby’s Milan MILAN.- Sotheby’s Milan will hold an auction on Monday 17 November 2008, 6.00 p.m. The catalogue – consisting...

Salomone de’ Grassi, The Trinity MILAN.- The catalogue – consisting of over 140 lots – opens with a pictorial group of Fondo oro panels among which is a striking gold-ground painting by Salomone de’ Grassi, The Trinity, commissioned by the Visconti family....