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The acquisition of Veronese’s ‘Venus Disarming Cupid’ for the Worcester Art Museum was described by the director as a ‘game changer’

Michael Wellby’s bequest to the Ashmolean Museum includes close to 500 Renaissance and baroque pieces of silver and other rarities

This gem of a painting by Paul Bril depicts Saint Jerome in a mountainous landscape and was recently acquired by the Mauritshuis

This bust of Saint John the Baptist was recovered from a cache of Nazi-looted art, and now enters the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

The Getty has acquired one of Lieven van Lathem’s most important illuminated manuscripts, ‘The Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies’

Only 20–30 Netherlandish paintings are known to survive from the early 1400s. The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen recently acquired one

Decorative ceramic censer stands were used in Maya ceremonies. Two exceptional examples have entered the Kimbell Museum, Fort Worth

This tiered relief depicting the 12 tribes of Israel is a superlative addition to the Musée de Cluny’s impressive holdings of ivories

This alabaster head is known as Miriam, and is among 374 ancient artefacts from Tamna, Yemen given to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery this year

This rare YHD drachm is one of 1,200 silver coins dating from 5th–4th century BC gifted to the Israel Museum this year

Apollo is counting down to Christmas by taking a closer look at some of the greatest acquisitions, gifts and bequests of 2013