New research in the Rijksmuseum's catalogue for its Vermeer blockbuster suggests that Maria de Knuijt may have influenced his subject matter

Stefan Guzy has scoured archives from the Holy Roman Empire and believes he has traced back the ownership of the mysterious cipher book

Gregor Weber's biography "Johannes Vermeer: Faith, Light and Reflection" also supports the controversial view that Vermeer used a camera obscura

Working with human rights organisation Al-Haq, new report says journalists were deliberately targeted by Israeli forces in May

An online conference backed by a research project will explore how institutions can care for time-based, live and organic art

The story of an unknown register of patients is in my “Starry Night” book, out in paperback this month

A book and exhibition will reveal surprising facts about some of the artist’s best-loved motifs

Exhibition of the Mexican artist’s documents tell of often fraught dealings with doctors and the support she received from friends

Collaborative research by major German institutions may expose huge amounts of Chinese objects taken during Boxer Rebellion

A project led by scientists at Case Western Reserve University uses machine learning to identify a distinctive ‘fingerprint’ in each artist’s way of applying paint

US museum builds a permanent research space for its "crown jewel"—more than 1,200 works by Henri Matisse

Plus, a new centre to study Matisse at Baltimore Museum of Art and Josef Albers's lithographs at Cristea Roberts in London

The data, published today, found 67 individuals connected to the slave trade including John Julius Angerstein who helped to establish the museum's collection

The organisation launched a contemporary arts research centre at the Expo 2020 Dubai earlier this month

So far, the museum has not determined who the boy is, but it has reidentified other figures in the controversial painting, which is about to go back on view

Francis I of Brittany had his first wife painted over in a medieval prayer book before giving it to his new spouse, research at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum shows

Researchers have used artificial intelligence and other advanced methods to examine the ancient writing

Museum launches an online catalogue of 485,000 objects while curators comb through wartime acquisitions and works from former colonies

The new Nelson-Atkins Museum catalogue tells the full story of the Olive Trees

Research commissioned by the trust provoked complaints from Conservative politicians amid UK culture war around controversial monuments

Researchers will consider “various modes of return” for museum objects and how the process can help to reconcile with colonial past

X-rays and computer algorithms preserve the complicated technique of letterlocking, which turn writing paper into envelope

Researchers at C2RMF give an exclusive preview of their forensic study of all the artist's works in French museum collections

Vincent was allowed 42 units of wine in the asylum—three times more than today’s recommended limit

New research finds teenage artist's landscapes were based on a magazine for amateurs learning how to paint

New exhibition reveals 22 falsely attributed works discovered in German museum's collection

Julia Weist's project embedded in the New York public records reveals the uneven relationship between the city and its creatives

Insurance measures allowed the Leonardo painting to be included in the Louvre’s blockbuster if the loan was confirmed by 1 January. Now that date has passed, Martin Kemp laments its disappearance

Public collections usually avoid showing works that are on the market, but expert claims the $450m picture was made available to museums and collectors before the 2011 exhibition

New York-based Wildenstein-Plattner Institute will digitise fabled Wildenstein archive of sale catalogues, letters and experts’ notes