Old Masters
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Tacca's Hercules is star of the bronzes, while Carracci's military portrait and Rembrandt's print find favour where Rubens's daughter flounders in £31.1m sale
No big hitters, but overall quality and new buyers from Asia and Latin America buoyed £42.6m auction, with £5.3m record for Canova set in day sale
Veteran Old Master dealer will join the auction house in New York at the end of the summer, months after selling his inventory there
Munich museum has undergone a four-year €12m renovation
Maurizio Seracini concurs that the painting sold by Sotheby’s in 2012 is a modern forgery
From a Van Dyck once thought to be by Rubens to William Nicholson's portrait of an actress identified only weeks ago
Dutch museum will remove yellowed varnish from Van der Weyden's The Lamentation of Christ
The Descent from the Cross is the museum's first acquisition backed by the Marguerite and Robert Hoffman Fund, a hefty $17m endowment
The Accademia Carrara in Bergamo has re-attributed the 15th-century work Resurrection of Christ
Museum’s restoration lifts “grey veil” from final commission by the Renaissance artist Moretto da Brescia
The 17th-century work, a depiction of Christ as a child, could set a new artist record in June
The 27th edition of Salon du Dessin at Palais Brongniart assembles 39 dealers from Europe and the US
Will Jeff Koons’s handbags for Louis Vuitton help find a buyer for the Rubens portrait?
With new exhibitors, two preview days and refreshed floor plan, the grande dame of art and antiques fair is changing, albeit slowly
As artificial intelligence becomes more common, the market is embracing tools that might help to bring digital natives into the Golden Age
Assurances required from Rijksmuseum and Irish owner to promptly return celebrated portrait of Tahitian which Tate had tried to buy
Leonardo buzz may have given bidding a boost, but results still show a sharp divide between the best and the rest
From Pontormo to Klimt, dealers invest in research in the hope of boosting prices
Exhibitions to seek out at Manhattan's annual gallery trail, which now embraces paintings and sculptures
We survey the top five results in key markets, from Old Masters to Post-war and contemporary
We look back at some of most important purchases and donations that entered public collections this year
Better public understanding of condition requires greater access to digital images
New £7.3m record for Joseph Wright of Derby painting tops December sales in London
We talk Titian, Constable, Veneziano, Wright of Derby, Van Dyck and, yes, Leonardo, with art historian Bendor Grosvenor. And we get Judd Tully’s views on Miami’s annual art fair.
Rothschild's El Greco, a candlelit scene by Joseph Wright of Derby and an out of season crucifixion scene lead pre-Christmas sales
Slick marketing produced stupendous sale price for Salvator Mundi, but it sparked revulsion as well as elation
Inaugural December event brings city's Old Master dealers out from the shadows with exhibitions at more than 30 galleries
Despite buy-ins, the sale saw several strong prices and records below the dizzy height of $450.3m for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi
Price makes it the most expensive painting of all time
