The Florentine Civic Museums’ depository is part of a trend that is seeing institutions find ways of making more use of their archives

A painting depicting Pope Sylvester I made €3m, while a portrayal of Saint Helena more than doubled its high estimate, selling for €1.6m

Visitors to the Italian city have a rare chance to glimpse the inlaid marble floor, begun in the 14th century

Rediscovered panel painting comes to Christie’s evening sale in London next month with an estimate of £4m-£6m

Glasgow's Barolo Restaurant will run posters with the sculpture visible only from the waist up after artwork with the masterpiece in full-view was rejected

Numerous spaniels featured in the National Gallery of Ireland exhibition are likened to Paris Hilton's chihuahuas by show's curator

Though the Sunshine State's agencies have adopted extreme views on other topics, its Department of Education rebuffed claims that "David" is pornographic

The material splendour of the Tudors is captured in a volume showing how it was wielded to reinforce monarchy’s authority

Plus worryingly low artists’ pay in the UK and an Ugly Duchess

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Exhibition at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor will bring together 27 drawings and reunite Uffizi’s Adoration of the Magi with its preparatory designs for the first time

The painter’s masterpieces show that his influences stretched beyond Venice and at times touch on the miraculous.

According to the museum, the portrait by Giovanni Battista Moroni is “the most significant Italian Renaissance painting” it has acquired in more than half a century

Rare work by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi, valued at £277,990, will go on show at Ulster Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum show next year will explore the life and legacy of the “driving force behind the Italian Renaissance”

Masterpieces amassed in Renaissance England are brought together in an exhibition freed from expectations to tell a “hallowed national narrative”

Plus, a Pre-Raphaelite treasure, an iconic James Bond poster and a set of nine intricately inlaid panels

Eden Collinsworth tells a breathless, flowery tale of the celebrated Cecilia Gallerani portrait

A painting of a princess possibly by the Old Master has been sold digitally—but questions remain over its provenance, the inherent value of non-fungible tokens and who owns what

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

For centuries, it was thought that none of her paintings survived—now a new discovery is on show at Colnaghi Gallery

An exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum will look at how artists incorporated the unique properties of polished stone into their paintings

Early copy of The Feast of the Rose Garlands in National Gallery exhibition includes a fly on the lap of the Virgin

Our pick of the highlights from coming fairs and auctions

This well-researched volume confirms that female artists were far more numerous—and talented—than previously recorded

The Renaissance master is "more important than Giotto, Raphael or Caravaggio" say the curators of the show, which will travel to Berlin and London

Plus, the rise of private museums and Renaissance portraits at the Rijksmuseum

A major exhibition that includes nearly 90 paintings at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum boasts a series of blockbuster-calibre loans

The authors explain who Tommaso Inghirami was and how the first painting by Raphael came to the US