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UK export licence denied for Pontormo portrait

National Gallery London's £30m offer to buy painting was rejected by US owner

UK government plans gallery for its off-duty art

A selection of the 14,000 works in the Government Art Collection will be on show

Images of Gauguin in Tahiti discovered in photo album

Experts believe that prints in the album show the artist, his mistress and a ship’s doctor

US hedge funder rejects National Gallery's £30m offer to buy Pontormo portrait

Brexit pound slump means that Tom Hill would have lost $10m, but he breaks commitment

Stolen Van Gogh paintings to go on show in Naples

The two works, which were taken from Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002, were recovered by anti-mafia police last year

New retrospective in Paris for Pissarro, the first of the Impressionists

This will be one of three exhibitions on Pissarro in Europe this year, providing unparalleled access to the artist's greatest works

Female painter of the Flemish Baroque back in vogue—four centuries on

Rubens House to put on show of 17th-century artist Michaelina Wautier

Why Clive of India’s treasures are up for export to Qatar again

V&A and National Trust consider repeat of 2004 campaign to keep rare Mughal flask and huqqa in UK

American embassy hosts Syrian painting show in London

The outgoing US ambassador Matthew Barzun stresses the importance of the art in a time of “destruction”

'Substantial' gold hoard found hidden in piano

Inquest underway to determine whether discovery in Shropshire constitutes a "treasure"

Estorick Collection gets a new look

Italian Modern art gallery reopens this week after £600,000 refurbishment

Dürer’s creative year in the Low Countries inspires exhibition

Curators hope to retrace the artist’s steps with paintings, drawings and copies of a lost journal

Statens Museum for Kunst assesses how Northern Europeans interpreted Japan

Japanomania returns once more to Copenhagen as the exhibition looks at how Nordic artists used Japanese art in their own work

Owner of Zoffany painting destroyed in fire could receive £4m from UK government

Clandon Park, a country mansion in Surrey, was severely damaged by blaze in 2015

Icom issues Red List to counter trade in looted West African antiquities

Malian cultural heritage at biggest risk in wake of Islamist rebel attacks

Portrait of Oscar Wilde to return to UK for first time in nearly a century

Writer was forced to sell his prized painting when he went bankrupt during gross indecency trial

'A black nightmare': Palmyra attacked by Isil militants

Fears grow over fate of ancient Syrian site which suffered disastrous destruction during last occupation by extremists

London's National Portrait Gallery to host first major exhibition of Cézanne's portraits

Show will open at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris in summer 2017, travel to London that autumn, then head to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC

Royal Academy to reassemble Charles I’s art for blockbuster anniversary show

Organised with the Royal Collection, the 2018 exhibition should feature paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, Titian and Mantegna owned by the ill-fated Stuart monarch

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Remains of Gauguin’s father found near Tierra del Fuego

Scientists matched DNA from the artist’s teeth with bones belonging to Clovis Gauguin—and confirmed the ancestry of Paul’s grandson

Does charging help or hurt regional museums?

Attendance declines dramatically at York Art Gallery after admission fee is introduced

Van Gogh Museum criticises experts for 'easygoing attitude' towards authentication

Amsterdam institution has released another statement condemning sketchbook attributed to Van Gogh

London version of Manet’s Le déjeuner sur l’herbe predates the bigger picture in Paris

Research supports theory that Courtauld’s painting is preparatory sketch for version in the Musée d'Orsay

National Gallery's acquisition of Pontormo portrait under threat

London institution raised more than £30m to buy it, but fall in pound’s value may be presenting a new obstacle

Van Gogh Museum rejects artist's 'lost sketchbook'

Experts at odds over attribution to painter of 65 drawings to be published in new book

Ancient Nimrud ziggurat bulldozed by Isil

Islamic extremists razed massive 2,900-year-old Assyrian structure to the ground