"Even major works of art rarely have supportive documents, " said Cristina Acidini Luchinat, the superintendent of Florence's state museum and a renowned expert on Renaissance art.
Since that time countless thousands of works of major and minor art have been stolen, whether by professional thieves or as the result of war.
It would never have been one of his major works, but the swiftness and urgency with which the tale is told, and the potent composition of even the most simple scenes, reveal the touch of the master.
Many of the works relate directly to major historical figures of world significance (Ibn Sina, Ulughbeg, Temur, Chingiz Khan, Navoi, Beruni), and several are in the author's own hand.
It contains many original manuscripts and rare copies of major works on history, literature, philosophy, law, astronomy, physics, chemistry, pharmacology, geography, music, mathematics, mineralogy, economy, fine arts, etc. written in Uzbek, Arabic, Farsi, Tajik, Urdu, Pushtu, Tatar, Azeri, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur and other languages.
Some of the major works he wrote there included Noye's Fludde and War Requiem.
"Road works are a major cause of congestion on our roads and irritation for motorists, and anything that reduces their impact is welcome, " he said.
The tobacco survey is the first of several executive steps in the works to respond to the demise of major anti-tobacco legislation in the Senate.
Abe Goldfarb, a Wadjet Eye regular who voices Batra, is also handed an intermittently amusing but slightly bewildering role as a Broadway-loving janitor, whose schtick rather gums up the works of the first major set of puzzles to be solved.
Paulet is the only person to appear in all five of the finished "Card Players" works, which were the subject of a major exhibition at London's Courtauld Institute and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last year.
Paddle8.com has worked with David Zwirner, White Cube, Marianne Boesky, Gagosian, Yvonne Lambert, Honor Fraser, Performa, and NADA Miami Beach to offer works of art online by major contemporary artists.
The curators have also assembled a remarkable selection of models and maquettes, as well as a brilliant selection of films and videos showing the major works on site and under construction.
All major utility diversion works are to be completed by the end of November 2012.
For his day job, Drum Major Ward, of Northallerton, North Yorks, now works as an accommodation services accountant for the Army, sorting out furnishings for soldiers' homes.
There is an eager and burgeoning group of technology entrepreneurs such as AirTies, Pozitron, Gitti Gidiyor, Yemeksepeti and PI Works, that are on the cusp of major breakthroughs.
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It appears that it will all come down to the quality of their major pieces, which this year include works by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and the always entertaining Andy Warhol.
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And a bid to require Parliament to approve the terms and conditions of any financial assistance for major water and sewage infrastructure works was defeated by 300 votes to 231.
He was virtually unknown as an artist during his lifetime, but his reputation soared in the years after his suicide at the age of 37 following years of mental illness, and his works now hang in major museums and galleries around the globe.
The Highways Agency has suspended road works during Easter on a number of England's motorways and major A roads.
If in the next iPhone Apple can introduce a version of Siri that works almost flawlessly, it will be a major coup.
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The annual reports of almost every major company nowadays dwell on social goals advanced and good works undertaken.
It works similarly to many pesticides, by blocking the breakdown of acetylcholine, a major neurotransmitter, leading to a rapid buildup of this chemical in the body.
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Road works at Inverness have caused major disruption for travellers headed for the city from the other side of the Kessock Bridge.
Pope Benedict has promised greater transparency in Vatican finances and the operations of its bank, the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), which has in the past been implicated in major money-laundering scandals.
In financials, where correlation of performance is high for the properties with major weightings, painting with a broad brush works better.
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Works by Picasso and Miro also went under the hammer in the first of two weeks of major auctions in New York.
BBC: Claude Monet's Nympheas. Image from Christie's, New York
More than 100 works by the York-born artist, William Etty, are to feature in the first major exhibition of his work for 50 years.
You should be able to explain the tradeoffs of major engineering decisions if you run into the founders and they want to know why something works the way it does.
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