The art historian Matthew Holman makes a personal selection from the finest collection of its type—celebrated for the breadth and depth of the story it tells of Western painting up to 1900

David with the Head of Goliath, fully attributed to the artist in 2020, will headline Sotheby's Old Master evening auction on 2 July

Newly attributed painting to be unveiled after a heroic conservation effort following serious damage from the Beirut explosion in 2020

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Under the National Treasures scheme, 12 UK museums are mounting exhibitions around the loan of masterpieces from the National Gallery

Exploring Now You See Us, which celebrates the output of Vanessa Bell, Mary Beale and many more, plus conversations about Dia’s legacy and the ’visual linguist‘ Wong

Exhibition in Genoa dedicated to 17th-century painter includes a multimedia installation detailing the artist’s infamous rape by artist Agostino Tasso

Plus, the challenges facing the Old Master market and a lithograph by Honoré Daumier

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the the textural, labour-intensive work of Howardena Pindell to Jean Cocteau's film Orphée

Royal Collection curators checked provenance records and pigments, tracing the work to Queen Henrietta Maria

Two exhibitions, in Boston and Baltimore, celebrate the overlooked women artists who were working in Europe from the 15th century onwards

Organisers of Gallerie d’Italia show have given full attributions to four works on loan from public and private collections in the US and UK

The painter, arguably Europe’s greatest female Old Master, had a flourishing workshop in the southern Italian city, interacting with key contemporaries there

"Artemisia UpClose" project at Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy, will use state-of-the-art technology to show the original painting

The painting, which is currently being restored at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will ultimately return to the Sursock Palace

If judges rule that the owners of the work broke the law, the painting will be definitively confiscated by the state and could be donated to a museum

This well-researched volume confirms that female artists were far more numerous—and talented—than previously recorded

Two rediscovered pastels by Carriera, one of the few women artists from the era who gained international acclaim in her lifetime, were reunited with two more from the same series

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections

The museum, which did not disclose the price, says the work reflects a shift to a more idealised style

Search data from 84 countries last year shows that Leonardo, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo were among the world's most popular artists

From the saga over a controversially delayed Philip Guston show to an under appreciated female Old Master whose big moment never came

Move reflects how museums could cash in on digital initiatives

As coronavirus forces English museums to close, take a virtual guided trip around the much-anticipated show of the female Old Master with this video and podcast

The artist’s first major UK exhibition uses dramatic spaces and biographical detail to bring her career into closer focus

From the National Gallery's long-awaited Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition to Damien Hirst's career-spanning show at his own Newport Street Gallery

We take a tour of the Artemisia Gentileschi show in London with curator Letizia Treves and explore a new biography of Frida Kahlo with its author, Hettie Judah

Postponed by the pandemic, the show will reveal Baroque artist's recently discovered intimate letters and "unflinching" paintings

All you ever wanted to know about Artemisia, from the best biographies to a book about her place in early modern feminism—selected by Italian painting specialist Letizia Treves