The houses are encouraging cross-category buying and offering rare, unique works bolstered by compelling narratives in a bid ...

As the old adage goes: You have to crack a few eggs if you want to make an omelet—and, apparently, a masterpiece work of art. Example of wrinkling in Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna of the Carnation." ...

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 ...

The storied collection of Old Masters, amassed by collectors Thomas A. Saunders III and his wife Jordan, realized $64.7 million when it hit the block at Sotheby’s on May 21. The total comes in ...

Sotheby’s and Christie’s made headlines this week for record-smashing sales, achieving the second and third-highest Old Master auction prices ever. The annual Master Paintings Week swung into action ...

We go to our American art museums and dutifully pass the Old Masters paintings, nonchalant about them being on display here rather than in Italy, Spain, Germany, England, France, the Netherlands ...

When studying valuable masterpieces, ... Ultra-high resolution Fourier domain optical coherence tomography for old master paintings. Optics Express, 2015; 23 (8): 10145 DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.010145; ...

Art Review ‘Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800’ Review: Old Master Masterpiece The Metropolitan Museum of Art unveils a stunning rehang of its core collection.

The paintings’ recovery cost about €50,000 ($55,000) in legal fees; the foundation, which regularly sponsors museum acquisitions, covered this amount in full.