This was the case with Rembrandt’s famous painting The Night Watch, which instinctively seems like a fairly typical Flemish baroque painting. It’s massive in size, a whopping 12ft x 14ft (3.65m x ...

Lavinia Fontana, who lived from 1552-1614, is seen as one of the very first women to make a career out of painting in Western art, and an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance ...

Experts believe there is a fresco painted by Leonardo Da Vinci hidden behind a later one by Giorgio Vasari after pigments were found matching his work.

With aspects such as the remarkable attention paid to costume and botanical detail, he continues, “the dialectical relationship between Angelico’s painting and Flemish painting of the period m ...

Titled "Study of Reclining Lions," the previously unknown work by the renowned French Romantic painter has been owned by a family in France since the mid-1800s ...

The big names had a very tough 2024 – but the new year looks a lot brighter for those auction houses which specialise in smaller sales. Aso O. Tavitian grew up poor — but at age 64 he began an ...

Spoliation Advisory Panel rules that 'Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy' will be returned to descendants of Samuel Hartveld, who fled Antwerp with his wife in May 1940 ...

This painting is de Lussac’s second big discovery ... a famous 17th-century Flemish artist. “I was very, very surprised,” de Lussac told the Washington Post’s Jonathan Edwards in 2023.

Few artists have such popular appeal as Vermeer and Sotheby’s Bond Street saleroom was packed to over-flowing on the evening ...

In her current solo exhibition, 'Games of Chance' HARPER'S, Chloe West draws on European portraiture and still life traditions.

It’s not an area in which I have any expertise but I’ve found myself thinking about trade and resources, and what it could ...