A V&A employee creates a to-scale exhibition of masterpieces for his gerbils while in lockdown

The world’s greatest unsolved art theft continues to obsess—and stump—investigators

The story behind the revealing of Cupid in one of Vermeer's greatest masterpieces, and Helen Cammock on her Whitechapel show and nomination for this year's Turner Prize

The uncovered figure changes the composition of Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window

Laboratory tests revealed "sensational" discovery that the figure in Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window was overpainted decades after the artist’s death

The 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt this year has prompted a glut of exhibitions devoted to the Dutch artist and his peers

Munich museum has undergone a four-year €12m renovation

A team of international specialists are studying Girl with a Pearl Earring for two weeks straight

A Scotland Yard report shows that the notorious Dutch faker bought lapis lazuli paint for his “Vermeers” in bulk from Winsor & Newton

But major works failed to sell

A committee of experts has decided that the reattributed painting, Young Woman Seated at the Virginals, is authentic

After its showing in New York, Baron Rolin’s “Young woman at a virginal” has been accepted as plausible enough to be included in the London stage of the exhibition, but some scholars have yet to be convinced

Paint analysis suggests that "Woman at a virginal", which is in private hands and has been dismissed for 50 years, may be by the master