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A second signed version of Pieter Paul Rubens' St Sebastian, recently auctioned off at Sotheby's.
The most recent "apparitions" of previously unseen paintings by Rembrandt and their adventures on the art market.
Mr. PA, contemplating Goya’s portrait of Manuel Osorio at the Metropolitan Museum, meditates on the nature of art and his own life.
Mr PA's third visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is all about Cézanne's Card Players.
Author Dacia Maraini's conjectures before a painting of two little girls by Antonietta Raphaël.
Venice's Palazzo Loredan is hosting an exhibit on Sanya Kantarovsky: the interplay between the architecture of the building and the artworks offers an opportunity to reflect upon the meaning of time.
Giuseppe Castiglione, an eighteenth-century Jesuit painter and missionary in China, is now considered one of the glories Chinese national art.
An unusual portrait of Dante, far from the traditional iconography of scowling exile, conceals a mysterious note bearing the name Degas.
You can find many things at London bus stops: umbrellas, watches, and so on. More rarely, masterpieces by Titian in plastic envelopes.
The intriguing and little known youthful works of the artist Élisabeth Chaplin, painted in the Florentine countryside.
Laughter and jests, perhaps disguised as something else, might be the true subject of a work of art – especially if the artist is Jan Steen.
For ten years, from 1643 to 1653, the Flemish Michiel Sweerts from Brussels lived in Rome, depicting its popular life.
Hyperrealistic cacti, painted in oils and garish hues on gigantic canvases by the South Korean artist Lee Kwang-Ho.
"Sleepers": artworks, unknown masterpieces, awaiting recognition by the Connoisseur so as to be valued as they deserve.
The five large-scale paintings made by Benedetta Cappa Marinetti for Palermo's Palazzo delle Poste represent a merging of Futurist formal dynamism and Mediterranean chromatic lyricism.
The secret of a collector and true art connoisseur is knowing how to find a bargain: masterpieces untouched by the market inflation and still available for a reasonable price.
The life and works of Ugo Celada da Virgilio, a promising 20th-century Italian artist who worked in the shadows for most of his long life.
A conjecture as to the person depicted in a little-known work by Gustav Klimt interwoven with the motif of the “Black model of European painting”.
In Renaissance Florence it was customary to bring refreshments to new mothers on artistically decorated trays.
The Biblia pauperum of the Sacred Mountain of Varallo as described by Vittorio Sgarbi, in part through the inspired words of Giovanni Testori.
The dome painted by Correggio in the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma at the heart of a new and original layout.
A procession of the quick and the dead, guided by skeletons, in the churches of Beram (Croatia) and Hrastovlje (Slovenia).
When a fragment of a painting becomes an independent work, finding its own success on the art market.
The formative years of Paolo Caliari, better known as Paolo Veronese, as told in the words of the curator of the major exhibition at the Prado (2025).
