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." ...

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 ...

Canaletto’s sublime view of Venice, which once hung in the offices of Robert Walpole, the U.K.’s first prime minister, set a ...

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.

Last year, European Old Masters represented just 4% of the world’s $26.3bn art auction sales. In our contemporary-obsessed world, we’re just not paying them enough attention ...

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 ...

A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

As an art writer who talks to curators frequently, I had heard that the city’s Alte Pinakothek museum had a particularly choice collection of more than 700 masterpieces by the likes of ...

Collectors are buying colourful lives as much as paintings — and sleuthing gallerists know how to feed those appetites ...