The study also found that when volunteers looked at five works of art in the Hague’s Mauritshuis museum, their brains responded ten times more positively than when they viewed reproductions

The latest edition of the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato di Firenze (Biaf) opens at a time when wealthy individuals are moving to Italy in growing numbers

The exhibition across three venues in the Netherlands will include new findings and the artist's restored masterpiece, Saint Luke Painting the Madonna

The portrait of the Duke of Saxony, attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop, will be auctioned by Christie’s in New York in January 2025

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

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

Ahead of an exhibition at the National Gallery in London that will pair two of his works with the Renaissance masterpiece, Hockney talks about what makes the work so special

In the absence of large-scale works, the London show focuses instead on the objects that reveal the artist’s deepening spirituality

Slim auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's saw a rediscovered Quentin Metsys and a modestly priced Botticelli come to the block

The painting previously sold at Christie’s for £254,500

The oil sketch “Saint Gregory of Nazianzus” (1621) is one of five works by the Old Master that were unlawfully taken from the Friedenstein Foundation, with two still missing

Conservation has revealed the extensive changes Rubens made to a work originally by Herri Met de Bles

Fresh research has revealed how the prestigious pair seized the moment to ensure their likeness was painted by the great Dutch artist

Works by the painter, owned by the controversial "playboy" socialite, were offered at Christie's New York this month

Numerous scholars endorse recently attributed piece depicting Jesus in a crown of thorns

Sandra Gamarra Heshiki references 17th-century European paintings in her investigations of Spain’s colonial past and its ongoing repercussions

Looking back at the history of the pioneering dealership in post-war art, plus a thought-provoking new installation in Madison Square Park and Caravaggio's The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula

Sleeper hunter dealers must recognise they have an asymmetrical relationship to vulnerable people pressured by circumstance to sell off their treasured heirlooms

Scattered seven-figure highlights failed to make up for dozens of passed lots and multiple key withdrawals

The portrait of Moses surfaced in Paris in 2022 and will form part of a loan exhibition at Waddesdon Manor in March

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

The category’s extraordinary works sell well, but the middle and lower ends of the market are in need of new ideas

Scientists discovered extra seam during Operation Night Watch conservation project at the Rijksmuseum

Evening sales at Sotheby's and Christie's drew in £19.4m and £21.3m, respectively

The painting could more than double the Spanish Old Master's auction record when it hits the block at Sotheby's

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

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

Layers of earlier well-meaning but overzealous restoration work had obscured the Old Master’s hand—until now

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

The painting, acquired by Augustus III, hung in a Soviet general’s home after the war