“This is how art history gets written, from these primary-source materials,” says Stanford’s art and architecture librarian

An exhibition in New York spotlights an intriguing episode in trade history , in which an influx of foreign artists to Rome prompted everyone from barbers to lawyers in the city to develop side hustles as art dealers

The culture minister is calling for a new, world-class space for the national collection, currently housed in three locations in Reykjavik

The museum is preparing to open a major new building in the heart of the Polish capital

With the Royal Academy the only UK institution now teaching connoisseurship, too many students of art history are missing out on learning an important skill

The Art History Now project sees over 90 big names share new reflections on what art history means to them

The gallery's curators reveal the role played by living artists and women in building the institution’s all-embracing character over the past 200 years

The recent research also suggests that the famous Italian landmark was part of a broader building programme

Bacon believed the Dutch artist deformed reality “to make it more real”

Fluttering butterflies enliven the greenery, but also remind us of the transience of life

ROCI project was seen in ten countries in the 1980s including the Soviet Union and Cuba

A new biography reveals that the director of the Kröller-Müller Museum had earlier acquired eight Van Goghs for his personal collection—and he may have sold the finest one to Hitler’s deputy, Hermann Göring

Kojiro Matsukata’s still life was destroyed in a London fire and his “Van Gogh’s Bedroom” was seized during the Second World War

The optimistic April paintings were produced at an extremely challenging time for the artist

It is almost certain, and this could well be a reason behind Vincent’s suicide

Vincent borrowed a casserole from his brother’s kitchen for the painting, which has just been acquired by Rotterdam’s art museum

A new exhibition in Amsterdam explores how the Old Master's paintings and drawings were inspired and informed by the art of acting

It’s not only the art, but also his extraordinary life story

The gallery couldn’t afford the price, of just under £20,000

Fifteen art capitals are captured at their brilliant apogee in Caroline Campbell's book

The portrait of Gordina, whom Vincent was accused of getting pregnant, is worth around £5m

Other highlights include the dramatic recovery of a stolen painting and an astonishing donation

Omitted from the 1920s book, next September the masterpiece will star in a London blockbuster on Vincent’s art of Provence

The French artist tried to rewrite history, just months before his death

Vincent felt that the café he painted was where you could “ruin yourself, go mad, commit crimes”

The Italian filmmaker—and occasional painter—was scathing about Picasso but delighted in Caravaggio

It may have been near the inn where he stayed—not in a more distant wheatfield

We spotlight eight paintings in the London show that Vincent singled out for special praise

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

The first exhibition on Vincent’s visit to Drenthe, where art consoled him after a failed love affair