With a long-lost and recently discovered painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, ‘Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy’, on ...

Conservators at The Mauritshuis gallery say famous paintings may have been made by the Dutch Old Master’s students or studio ...

By late in the 17th century, the vaulted loggia ceiling had fallen into disrepair, and included loose areas of “intonaco,” the final, smooth layer of plaster used in frescoed painting.

A new exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art puts 17th-century artist phenom Rachel Ruysch back in the spotlight.

An unassuming Tudor hunting lodge in the Cumbrian district in the U.K. just gave up a wild secret: rare wall paintings from the 16th century that depict a host of truly fantastical beasts.

The word "ninja" may bring to mind a person dressed mostly in black, but what they wore was actually quite different.

Dutch painter Han van Meegeren set out to copy paintings of Dutch 'Old Masters', down to their colours and brushes, and he was both lauded and critiqued for it.

Let’s explore the history of still life through a selection of 10 paintings corresponding to two key moments: the 17th century in the Netherlands, and the 19th century in France. Eighty years after ...

It featured several life-size three-dimensional versions of Van Gogh’s 19th-century ... paintings and become part of his artwork. They were seen posing for photos in one of the artist’s famous ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles The Mexican School, 17th Century comprised a group of artists active in this ...

Most famous as the hometown of Shakespeare’s tragic couple Romeo and Juliet, Verona isn’t typically one of the first cities ...