Four years ago, a powerful portrait of Diogenes the Cynic, deep in thought as he thumbs his grubby fingers through a challenging tome, sold at auction in Germany for €7,100 (£6,100), and was ...
Once again, Italian authorities have arrested Pasquale “Lino” Frongia, the artist suspected of forging a string of Old Master paintings that have appeared at high-profile museums and made millions at ...
In what’s being called “the biggest art scandal in a century,” French police are investigating about $255 million worth of paintings attributed to Old Masters that they suspect are forgeries. Detail ...
In this fascinating series of works, Hungarian new media artist Bence Hajdu has removed the figures from a series of Old Master paintings with such precision that it’s almost hard to believe. While ...
One of the most common human gestures, the pointing finger, appears frequently in Old Master paintings as a guiding cue. However, its influence on viewers' gaze has never been systematically ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Booming art prices have produced plenty of "treasures in the attic" of late, and this week could see another when a painting first valued at 300 pounds is set to fetch up to three ...
Dora Sallay ’92 is no stranger to travel. As head of the Old Master Paintings department at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, her job involves regular visits to creative epicenters such as Los ...
On loan from the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria in Perugia, the artist’s ‘Man of Sorrows’ (1495) will be on view through February 4 before heading to the Morgan Library, where it ...