“The Old Masters” turns on a famous case about one of the paintings hanging in the National Gallery of Art, “The Adoration of the Shepherds.” According to the gallery’s Web site, the ...

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

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

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 ...

Texas had never seen anything like the $1,500,000 worth of old masters that arrived in Dallas in a sealed steel freight car last week. Lent by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, the paintings will ...

The “Entombment” may be taken as the most perfect, as well as the noblest, example of art in the collection of the old masters at the Louvre. The work is grandly composed,— the lines, ...

But the fact remains that in most cases the tastes of the art-buying 0.01 percent have shifted towards contemporary, making Old Masters a harder sell, particularly at a time when big-name ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The history of Modern Indian Art shines with countless luminous stars, whose legacy is eternally remembered and cherished. Of these, the old masters of Indian art, active ...

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." ...