The Galleria Borghese has brought together the Aeneas Frieze panels from collections around the world

The work, which could become the second-most expensive by the painter at auction, failed to sell in 1998

Plus, a rediscovered Titian and a reliquary sculpture from Gabon

From the greatest stars of the Venetian School to the most mysterious painting in the city, here is our selection of unmissable masterpieces in La Serenissima

All you ever wanted to know about Titian, from a biography fit for a king to an overlooked lecture essay from 1990—selected by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum curator Nathaniel Silver

We often overlook gaps in provenance, or disagreement between experts, simply because we want to believe in fairytales

Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures post, held by Desmond Shawe-Taylor, will be ‘lost and held in abeyance’

From the saga over a controversially delayed Philip Guston show to an under appreciated female Old Master whose big moment never came

From Titian's masterpieces and a major Raphael survey, to the final stop of the Soul of a Nation tour

By bowing out of the Renaissance blockbuster tour, the Edinburgh museum has not only let down the Scottish public but shown its priorities are misplaced

The museum is expected to reopen in July or August

Renaissance specialists are divided as to which painting is the one commissioned by Philip II of Spain: the one at London's Apsley House or the one at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid

The masterpieces produced for Philip II will go on show at London's National Gallery before touring to Edinburgh, Madrid and Boston

Part of the Wellington Collection in London, the picture was originally believed to be by a minor north Italian artist

Exhibition about the Venetian Renaissance at Frankfurt’s Städel Museum also includes works by Giovanni Bellini and Jacopo Tintoretto

Sixteenth-century painting of Christ on the cross was rushed immediately for conservation

Write on Art initiative was launched to combat the decline of arts teaching in schools

A shoestring trip to La Serenissima—and a thumbs-up for Simon Schama

Noah Charney on works that we cannot see, but which remain as an influence to those who did see them

When I put an image of a well-known Titian on the screen, only one of 40 could identify the artist

Museum using crowdfunding platform to raise $10-20m for Venus and Adonis painting once thought to be a fake