Old Masters
Long-unseen royal portrait by Diego Velázquez could bring $35m at auction
The painting could more than double the Spanish Old Master's auction record when it hits the block at Sotheby's
Cimabue ‘kitchen’ painting placed under export ban ends up at the Louvre
The culture ministry had been given 30 months to raise the funds to purchase the work after its sale at auction in 2019 was halted
New insights about Hans Holbein and his sitters come to light ahead of London and Frankfurt shows
The exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery will display rarely shown drawings, while the Städel Museum survey will show what might be the artist’s oldest known painting
How Princeton rediscovered a Rubens in its collection
Layers of earlier well-meaning but overzealous restoration work had obscured the Old Master’s hand—until now
Six paintings stolen from a Dutch town hall left on art detective's doorstep
Arthur Brand, who helped to recover a Van Gogh painting last month, says he was watching a "boring football game" when the surprising delivery was made
Dutch dealer returns Weenix landscape stolen in the Second World War to Dresden museum
The painting, acquired by Augustus III, hung in a Soviet general’s home after the war
Five generations of Brueghels are brought together for the first time
New show will examine the political and economic conditions that shaped the family’s fortunes
A question of attribution: just how useful can AI tools be?
Connoisseurs and app makers agree on one thing: artificial intelligence-driven apps may supplement but do not replace the human eye and expertise in assessing a picture’s authorship
Baroque sensation Elisabetta Sirani finally has her first solo show outside Italy
The 17th-century Bologna-based painter is the subject of a concentrated presentation at Robert Simon Gallery in New York
Drunkard or genius? London's National Gallery gets up close and personal with Frans Hals
First major survey of Dutch painter in three decades will include reunited panels and monumental paintings
‘Clearly a copy from the 19th century’—Old Masters scholars reject AI-attributed Raphael
The so-called de Brécy Tondo has in the past been assumed to be a Victorian copy
Long-lost canvas by Flemish painter Michael Sweerts propels Christie's Old Master sale in London to its best result in seven years
The auction house made £53.9m (with fees) from 38 lots, and saw a new record established for Fra Angelico
Selective buying leaves 35% of lots unsold at Sotheby's Old Master sale in London
The £39.4m auction was led by a 15th-century painting by the Master of the Baroncelli Portraits at £7.9m, while a new record was set for a work by William Hogarth—albeit sold to a single bid
From the 'Bloomsbury stud' to unseen works by Winifred Nicholson—our pick of London Art Week
The annual eclectic gallery trail finishes on Friday, with 51 participants to see around central London
Italian painter arrested as investigations continue in Old Master forgery scandal
Lino Frongia is suspected of producing the fakes that sold for millions of euros
The Big Review: Georg Baselitz: Naked Masters at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna ★★★★★
Bold pairings of paintings by the contemporary German artist with those of the Old Masters are both provocative and elegiac
Vermeer blockbuster officially breaks record at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum
The recently-closed exhibition drew 650,000 visitors in its four month run
For just the third time this century, a Fra Angelico work heads to auction
Rediscovered panel painting comes to Christie’s evening sale in London next month with an estimate of £4m-£6m
Propelled by Marie Antoinette's poodle, mid-season Old Masters auctions in New York fetch nearly $13m
Specialists at Christie’s and Sotheby’s dismissed concerns about a decline in the Old Masters market
'Girl with a Pearl Earring' reexamined in 100 billion pixels: discoveries from the Vermeer symposium in Amsterdam
Experts from around the world have revealed fascinating new information about the Dutch Old Master and his works
How Lavinia Fontana went from ‘prospect’ to first professional woman artist
An exhibition of the 16th-century Italian painter at the National Gallery of Ireland tells the story of her unique circumstances and reveals the results of a recently restored work
President Macron gets a private tour of the Rijksmuseum's blockbuster Vermeer show
The French head of state and First Lady pondered over masterpieces such as The Milkmaid and The Lacemaker
'Are Old Masters having a renaissance? Leaner times breathe new life into a tired market'
Collectors tend towards safety in times of trouble—and current uncertainty is causing a shift in buying habits
Just what the doctor ordered: masterpieces from Milan museum brighten up hospital
Works from the Pinacoteca di Brera have been blown up and pasted in high definition on the walls of the Humanitas hospital in Ronzano to improve patients' well-being
Master Drawings New York, founded by two London dealers in 2006, acquired by New York gallery
Manhattan-based Christopher Bishop Fine Art has purchased the fair
Are young collectors buying Old Masters? Dealers at Tefaf Maastricht bank on changing tastes
The sector could benefit from cross-over buyers influenced by fashion designers and institutions looking to diversify collections
Acquisitions round up: the Met acquires 16th-century portrait of pope's banker
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Art history sleuths reunite mother with husband and son in 17th-century Flemish portrait
Scholars have pieced together separate parts of painting after 200 years
Old Masters in Maastricht: What does Tefaf tell us about the market for historic art?
Plus, the Institut du Monde Arabe's major gift and expansion plans and an unflinching self-portrait by a Rococo woman artist
The hunt for as many as nine elusive Vermeer paintings continues
As the Rijksmuseum's once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster brings together an unprecedented number of works by the Old Master, paintings including a self-portrait are still missing