Were all the 2,000-odd works in the art collection of Manhattan’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ever put on view at one time, some observers might wonder just how it got to be so famous.

28% on the first £40,000 of the hammer price; 27% of the hammer price of amounts in excess of £40,000 up to and including £800,000; 21% of the hammer price of amounts in excess of £800,000 up to and ...

While the most expensive paintings ever sold tend to be famous pieces everyone watches, some of them were rediscovered after ...

The Met’s new exhibition on Siena—the first of its kind in America—shows how the possibilities of strange, colorful ooze ...

Women stare out from their paintings, eyes perpetually sparkling with glassy tears. These women were painted centuries ago. Maybe they were mere figments of imagination, even then. Still, they are ...

It's home to more than 700 masterpieces from Botticelli, Rubens, Titian, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Hals, and more.

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help ...

The portrait by a French court painter is one of three displayed in a photo that came to depict the efforts of a U.S. Army ...

While the contemporary art tribe landed in London for Frieze week, I found myself magnetically drawn to “Siena: The Rise of ...

AN OLD Master painting believed to be by German artist Hans Rottenhammer, which could be worth around £8,000 and a Goliath Ball Watch worth up to £3,000 were two of the discoveries at a busy charity ...

But he's far from alone. A fascination with food permeates art history, from the Old Masters' lush tableaus of fruit and wine, to modern-day painters who depict snacks as a nod to nostalgia ...