DENVER -- As I stood in line with thousands waiting for their timed tickets to see an exhibition of costumes from the Star Wars franchise at the Denver Art Museum, I had to admit to my neighbors that ...

An Old Master painting looted by the Nazis but then saved by the Monuments Men has raked in an impressive £436,000 at auction. The early 18th century work by Nicolas de Largillierre, titled Portrait ...

Editor's note: The Dallas Museum of Art last week installed its newly acquired masterpiece of German Renaissance painting and its first Renaissance Old Master acquisition in more than a generation.

In March 2016, a US auction gallery sold an Old Master oil painting (a sketch of an old woman) for $27,000. The sale price was nearly double the high auction estimate of 15,000. However, when the same ...

ON THE MORNING of January 6, 2021, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, like most Americans, was going about her business as usual. She’d recently completed an ambitious suite of 15 allegorical paintings for her ...

Researchers think old masters like Sandro Botticelli, who painted Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, may have mixed egg into their oil paints to alter certain qualities. Fine Art Images / Heritage ...

Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun’s imposing, life-sized “Portrait of Muhammad Dervish Khan” sold for $7.2 million last night at Sotheby’s New York, exceeding the high end estimate of $6 million, and ...

“Old Masters” such as Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli and Rembrandt may have used proteins, especially egg yolk, in their oil paintings, according to a new study. Trace quantities of protein ...

Only 10% of museumgoers passed a cheeky test proposed at London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery, where conceptual artist Doug Fishbone challenged them to distinguish a fake from a masterwork (see Doug ...