The Sultan of Brunei is one of the richest people on the planet. The Sultan of Brunei Haji Hassanal Bolkiah is willing to spend about 535 million VND for a haircut. A barber from London, England named Ken Modestou specializes in being invited to cut the hair of this monarch. The amazing thing is that the worker still lives in the UK, was flown to Brunei by private jet just to get a haircut and the Sultan of Brunei also paid for the move. Gold shirt costs more than 5 billion Datta Phuge wears a pure gold shirt. An Indian businessman and billionaire named Datta Phuge ordered a gold shirt for himself in 2012. Such a shirt costs 240,000 USD (more than 5.5 billion VND). This shirt is made of 22 carat gold and took 3 years to sew. The shirt was designed by jewelry designer Tejpal Ranka in the city of Pune, India. 16 artisans were recruited by Tejpal just to assemble the pieces of the shirt within 15 days. Not only that, the designer also hand-made a belt to match the gold shirt. Guinness World Records has also recognized this as the most expensive shirt in the world. Engraved giant name so that it can be seen from… the Moon The name of the Arab billionaire can be seen from the Moon. A billionaire named Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan bought an island in the city of Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia with the desire to carve his name on the island. The special thing is that the name is engraved so large that it is said to be visible from the Moon. It was created by digging deep into the earth and letting seawater flow in. Buy an old book for more than… 700 billion dong The book is “worth a thousand gold” by Leonardo da Vinci. Billionaire Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft Corporation, rarely spends lavishly, but he spent 30.8 million USD (more than 709 billion VND) to buy an old book. It is a book by the famous painter Leonardo da Vinci called Codex Leicester. (According to Natinol/Dan Tri)

In 2012, Indian billionaire Datta Phuge stunned many people when he ordered a gold shirt for himself. This shirt is made of 22 carat gold, worth 240,000 USD (more than 5.5 billion VND). Time to complete this shirt is 3 years. 16 artisans were recruited just to assemble the pieces of the shirt within 15 days. Guinness World Records has also recognized this as the most expensive shirt in the world. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah is famous for being rich with the country’s abundant oil resources. He used to be willing to spend about 535 million VND for a haircut. Accordingly, a barber from London (England) was invited to cut the hair of this monarch. Worth mentioning, that worker still lives in the UK, was transported to Brunei by private jet just to cut his hair and the Sultan of Brunei also paid for the move. Billionaire Bill Gates is famous for his thrifty habits, rarely spending extravagantly. However, he spent 30.8 million USD (more than 709 billion VND) to buy an old book. It is a book by the famous painter Leonardo da Vinci called Codex Leicester. Saudi billionaire Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan bought an island in the city of Abu Dhabi, Arabia with the desire to engrave his name on the island. The special thing is that the name is engraved so large that it is said to be visible from the Moon. It was created by digging deep into the earth and letting seawater flow in. Image source: Getty Image Video: Bill Gates and his wife are divorced and property division. Source: VTV24

Born and raised in the 19th century, many people know Van Gogh through his works of art, books and records of his life. But, have you ever imagined what if one day Van Gogh appeared in the form of a modern man? This time, Artist Mikeshake – an artist specializing in using iconic faces in art history and applying them to modern images, once again presented the audience with his works of art. The main character is painter Van Gogh. With his own imagination and aesthetic eyes, Artist Mikeshake turns a 19th century Van Gogh in harmony with the style of contemporary young people. Gentleman Van Gogh is elegant in a simple black suit. The thoughtful style of photography is probably very suitable for the Dutch painter. Although he is in the 19th century, Van Gogh still knows how to pose in a very standard magazine style. However, regardless of the time, his romantic looks still unwavering. It can be seen that Van Gogh’s face and hairstyle are quite suitable for country-style outfits. Even so, once he’s put on a cowhide coat, he looks very much like this and that. With Van Gogh’s talent, at the moment, buying a super car is not a big deal. Close-up portrait of Van Gogh strayed into modern times.

The painting “The Girl in the Garden” National Treasure by painter Nguyen Gia Tri is numbered 15 on iMuseum (Photo: Hoa Binh) On the morning of April 22, Vietnam Fine Arts Museum officially announced the very interesting operation of App iMuseum VFA. With the specific need for in-depth knowledge of the art industry, not everyone knows which precious works are kept in museums. Therefore, art followers, every time they come to a city, want to visit the Museum of Fine Arts, often suffer from fatigue and exhaustion from room to room but never knowing in advance that they can reunite. with favorite work or not. The introduction of the iMuseum VFA App is considered a breakthrough in the era of technology 4.0, with many outstanding utility features that help visitors to easily discover hundreds of valuable works, huge blocks of valuable assets. timeless value. The Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the General Director of the General Department of Tourism use the iMuseum VFA app to learn about works at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum Immerse yourself in the flow of 4.0 Information flooded on the internet can assist visitors to know basic information about outstanding valuable works. However, without scientific data from the App iMuseum VFA, it is difficult for enjoyers to know exactly which works the Museum is holding. Just scan the QR code to buy the iMuseum VFA App right at the Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts gate, enjoyers can easily know exactly which precious works the Museum is keeping. From there, visitors will have the exact choice towards the work they want to contemplate. The works are numbered so that viewers can easily locate in which areas, rooms, and floors of the museum they are displayed. App iMuseum VFA The iMuseum VVFA App is extremely useful for individual guests who do not come in groups, so it is difficult to invite a single tour guide to present hundreds of works on display in many different rooms. Mobile museum converges a lot of knowledge All presentations on precious works of art preserved from many periods of Vietnamese art have been carefully read and reviewed by a panel of renowned artists and art researchers. Therefore, these presentations are not only a means to help guests enjoy the art more fully, but also become scientific documents to help refer to valuable works. Artist Nguyen Tu Nghiem’s ​​”Giong” is numbered 53 on iMuseum (Photo: Hoa Binh) Immense knowledge of mankind is integrated on the digital platform, new achievements of society 4.0, helping people enjoy just one click on the smartphone screen to enjoy. Currently, Vietnam Fine Arts Museum is keeping up to 20,000 artifacts. The iMuseum App aims to introduce the viewer to 100 outstanding works. In particular, there are 9 national treasures being kept and displayed here. If you still use the traditional presentation method, it will be costly effective, more time consuming, costly by the tour guide, and certainly impossible the tour guide’s knowledge can compare with ants. formula of experts and art council. The painting “Slapping the contemplative water” by painter Tran Van Can is numbered 52 Multimedia integration The iMuseum App integrates the museum map, audio files, text, and high-quality photos of the work, which is great security so users can only enjoy without downloading images to the device. Enjoyers can scan the QR code affixed on the exhibits, to read information about the works, can also press the listen button, admire the work while listening to the presentation integrated by the human intelligence. create. Seeing the famous works with my own eyes and listening to in-depth lectures, full of knowledge in fine arts is indeed a wonderful experience for 8 hours at the Museum. The painting “Two girls and babies” by painter To Ngoc Van – No. 9 on iMuseum (photo: Hoa Binh) Guests can choose between 8 different languages ​​to listen to the presentation, including Vietnamese, English, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Italian. The default language is the language of the user’s phone. According to the producer VINMAS, in the near future, the iMuseum App will continue to update more languages ​​to make it more convenient for tourists to visit the Museum, in the short term, the nearest will probably be German and Russian.

Cheeky theft All 16,000 paintings, sculptures and ceramics in the Gardner Museum were collected by a woman named Isabella Stewart Gardner. After inheriting a huge fortune from her millionaire father in 1891, she and her husband Jack Gardner – also a millionaire – began to visit Europe, and buy Roman sculptures and vases. antique, paintings by painter Rembrandt. After realizing her collection was very valuable, she built a museum named after her in the hope that it would contribute to “educating and entertaining the public forever”. Empty picture frames at the Gardner Museum Isabella passed away in 1924, and due to the couple’s only child, who accidentally died at a young age, she confiscated the entire museum. However, without the financial patronage of the female millionaire, the Gardner Museum quickly declined. On the evening of March 18, 1993, two police robbers tricked two young night guards, 23-year-old Rick Abath and 25-year-old Randy Hestand, to open the door to the museum on the grounds of investigating a case. Puppet takes place inside. The two security guards had no doubt that March 18 was St. Patrick’s Day, which was an “occasion” for the people of Boston to party and fight. The two thieves quickly restrained Rick and Randy, disabled security cameras and removed the precious paintings from the frame. The two thieves left at 2:45 am, and two security guards were bound and gagged with tape until the other guards arrived at 8:15 a.m. Two thieves took away the most valuable artworks on display at the museum: Rembrandt’s only seascape painting “Storm on the Sea of ​​Galilee”, “Ladies and Gentlemen in Black” as well. by Rembrandt, one of more than 10 paintings surviving to this day by the most talented Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer “The Concert”. In addition, they also stole a self-portrait of the painter Rembrandt, 5 draft drawings by French Impressionist Edgar Degas, a painting by the painter Edouard Manet and when they could not remove the Yellow flag. When Napoleon came down, they took away an antique Chinese bronze jar. Painting “Storm on the Sea of ​​Galilee” painted by painter Rambrandt – the most valuable item of what was stolen When she donated the museum to the city of Boston, Isabella made it clear her condition in her will, presumably to protect her brainchild from merchants, that no one was allowed to sell or donate. Contribute works of art, do not add any new works, and do not rearrange collections, and if these terms are breached, everything, including land. The Gardner Museum built … will be renamed to Harvard University. These strict provisions inadvertently created a major obstacle for the museum’s management: they could not hang other paintings to replace stolen ones, so they had to hang empty frames – like one. how to remind all of the lost treasures. Years passed, and these frames became the most popular “works” here. For Anthony Amore, director of security at the Gardner Museum and chief investigator of the theft, the fact that visitors were more concerned with empty frames than the remaining works made him concerned that Theft will overshadow the real value of the stolen treasures. “The paintings are artifacts of hundreds of years ago, to demonstrate a past that is not preserved in photographs. With just one ticket, one can see Rembrandt’s brush strokes, and now Now, we don’t maintain museums for money, but because we want to end the tragedy of the missing paintings. ” Theories were put forward for three decades Mr. Anthony investigated the case as detailed and comprehensive as possible, because he believed that if he answered every tip-off email and followed every trace he received, no matter how far away they sounded, he would be. Surely he will find something. Mr. Amore is still working with FBI agent Geoff Kelly, who is in charge of investigating the Gardner burglary. Gardner museum’s security director, Mr. Anthony Amore Mr. Geoff is the latest FBI agent in a series of agents assigned to investigate the case since 1981. Over the past three decades, the FBI has conducted a series of underground investigation campaigns from Miami, USA to Japan. The village is far away, and every time they leave empty-handed. Mr. Witman, a retired FBI agent, believes that the Corsician gang’s line in France that he infiltrated under the guise of an antiques “trigger” in 2006 actually owns the paintings. stolen in 1981. However, since many years have passed, he is not sure if they still keep those treasures. Responding to this clue, Mr. Anthony said that the paintings were not in France. Currently, the FBI has come up with a theory that Anthony is quite confident, that is the artwork stolen by two low-level minions in a criminal organization in Boston. The FBI once believed that Carmello Merlino was holding them because during a 1998 eavesdropping, agents overheard Merlino blabbering that he knew where the spoils were. However, later, when arrested for armed robbery and interrogated by the FBI, he was unable to indicate where the Gardner museum property was hidden. Merlino was sentenced to 47 years in prison, and died in 2005. The FBI and Anthony tracked down two tycoons in Maine, USA in 2003 and almost found the stolen stuff. In 2013, the FBI announced that they knew the identities of both thieves, and that both had passed away. As of now, the paintings may be in New England, USA. Portrait sketch of two perpetrators Geoff maintains his theory: Boston tycoon Whitey Bulger donated the paintings to the Interim Irish Republican Army (IRA) – a paramilitary organization aimed at ending British rule in the North. Ireland, and the IRA have indeed been involved in a number of antiques smuggling. After Bulger was arrested and the museum’s assets have yet to be found, Geoff argued that the two thieves did not follow the IRA’s orders but were still associated with the organization because they committed the crime on St. Patrick’s Day – one Important holidays for the people of Ireland. In addition, it is true that the IRA stole works of art, but they only stole domestic museums, such as the Russborough Museum in Ireland – which has been stolen by the IRA four times in a row. Mr. Anthony also pointed out that there are many works of Rembrandt in Europe, so the IRA does not have to fly to America to cause the crime. Mr. Geoff’s hypothesis was supported by inspector Charles Hill – a member of the committee that had found the picture “Scream” in 1994 – supported. Mr. Charles asserted that gangster Martin Foley, owner of the notorious debt collection company Viper, which has a close relationship with the Rossborough Museum’s painting thief, has “led the way” to two perpetrators selling the items. Gardner Museum items, that’s why Martin knows where the paintings are. Currently, Martin Foley is being sued by the Irish Property Criminal Bureau for owing $ 830,000 in taxes and Charles convinced him that he would be rewarded with $ 10 million, more than enough to pay, if he would declare it all. However, Charles thinks Martin is afraid of being prosecuted by both the FBI and Ireland for possession of fraud. There is another theory about the people behind the theft, which is that two security guards staged the crime. Dutch historian Arthur Brand, who has been dubbed the real-life Indiana Jones, opposes this argument and believes two security guards were not involved in the case. Attempts to solve the case in 2021 The Gardner Museum is currently closed due to the epidemic, but Mr. Anthony still goes to work every day, communicating with all the informants about the case. Over the years, many witnesses have passed away, but Anthony patiently added new findings and reread the tens of thousands of pages of evidence the FBI had provided. This man believes the answer must lie somewhere. Former lawyer Martin Leppo, although he did not search for the paintings, was still unable to stop pursuing the case, partly because so many people contacted him every day. Of course, Mr. Martin also encountered many imposters. For example, in 2019, a woman demanded to meet him and insisted her father was involved in the case, and she knew where the paintings were. But when Mr. Martin asked to see the paintings, she disappeared. “A few days ago someone called me to invite me to Saudi Arabia because he had a clue where the stolen items were, and I told him if he could find it, call me back,” he said. .