A 4,000-year-old pharaonic painting has vanished from Egypt’s famed Saqqara necropolis, the latest artefact to disappear in mysterious circumstances. The limestone relief appeared to have been cut out ...

Very few masterpieces are as anarchic, in both composition and atmosphere, as Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “The Wedding Dance.” The 1566 painting, at the Detroit Institute of Arts, shows Flemish ...

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The collector Thomas S. Kaplan is self-professedly evangelical about Rembrandt. Over the past two decades, he and his wife, Daphne Recanati Kaplan, have built the Leiden Collection, one of the world’s ...

A philosopher interested in public life can learn from how the popular media handle issues of art and morality. I read with interest now and then Slipped Disc, a web site devoted to gossip about the ...

Portrait of a Lady by the Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi handed over by daughter of the late Nazi financier Friedrich Kadgien Giuseppe Ghislandi's 18th-century painting "Portrait of a Lady" is ...

What appears to be Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady showed up the listing on the estate agent Robles Casas & Campos’s website in August Photo: Robles Casas & Campos Argentinian police are ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min A longtime Wichita-based oil and ...

A new study is revealing that ‘Old Master’ artists — including Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and other Italian Renaissance masters — may have added protein in the form of egg yolk to their oil ...

Mexico’s Pemex plans to reopen mature oil wells in a bid to increase production, which has been in a steady decline for years. According to a Reuters report, the Mexican state energy firm filed a ...

As a restorer who specialized in late medieval and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, he was in intimate touch with the paintings of long-dead masters. By Adam Nossiter Marco Grassi, a ...