After covering famous still-life paintings, it was almost natural for us to write about the medium often utilized in the still-life genre.With watercolors, one may create nearly any genre of art ...

From 3D prints of Michelangelo to a debut for still life virtuoso Rachel Ruysch, these Old Master exhibitions are set on ...

When I was young, I mainly knew Old Master paintings from reproductions. There was one of Fra Angelico’s Annunciation, from San Marco, on the top corridor at Bradford Grammar School. I think it ...

He was all but forgotten by the art world in the years after his death ... Today, of course, Vermeer is the very definition of Old Master accomplishment. But what is his best work?

Some notable lots include a religious painting by the Renaissance master Ambrosius Benson (estimated at $600,000 to $800,000) and a Madonna and Children from around 1620 by the Italian old master ...

Rembrandt van Rijn's 1636 'Self-Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume, 1636. The artist often portrayed himself as different ...

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 ...

Perhaps most tantalisingly of all, could it be an almost 400-year-old masterpiece ... an art specialist at Bonhams. “It is just hard to find one that is the hand of the master and not the ...

Christie's is offering a group of important and highly collectable 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), during two live auctions, Old Masters I and ...