Old Masters
'Are Old Masters having a renaissance? Leaner times breathe new life into a tired market'
Collectors tend towards safety in times of trouble—and current uncertainty is causing a shift in buying habits
Just what the doctor ordered: masterpieces from Milan museum brighten up hospital
Works from the Pinacoteca di Brera have been blown up and pasted in high definition on the walls of the Humanitas hospital in Ronzano to improve patients' well-being
Master Drawings New York, founded by two London dealers in 2006, acquired by New York gallery
Manhattan-based Christopher Bishop Fine Art has purchased the fair
Are young collectors buying Old Masters? Dealers at Tefaf Maastricht bank on changing tastes
The sector could benefit from cross-over buyers influenced by fashion designers and institutions looking to diversify collections
Acquisitions round up: the Met acquires 16th-century portrait of pope's banker
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Art history sleuths reunite mother with husband and son in 17th-century Flemish portrait
Scholars have pieced together separate parts of painting after 200 years
Old Masters in Maastricht: What does Tefaf tell us about the market for historic art?
Plus, the Institut du Monde Arabe's major gift and expansion plans and an unflinching self-portrait by a Rococo woman artist
The hunt for as many as nine elusive Vermeer paintings continues
As the Rijksmuseum's once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster brings together an unprecedented number of works by the Old Master, paintings including a self-portrait are still missing
The Big Review: Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum ★★★★★
A less-is-more approach to the biggest ever exhibition of the Dutch Old Master’s paintings makes this blockbuster a triumph
The curious case of Madonna and the missing Old Master
Mayor of Amiens in France asks pop star to loan work believed to be by Jérôme-Martin Langlois, spotted in a photograph of her home
Restituted, record-setting Bronzino and gruesome Rubens lead Sotheby’s Old Masters sales in New York
The auction house’s four-part auction extravaganza was a decidedly mixed bag, bringing a total of $74.5m across 124 lots
Record-breaking Goya portraits lead the way at Christie’s muted $62.7m Old Masters auctions in New York
Despite works the collection of film producer Jacqui Eli Safra that were enticingly offered with no reserves, the auction house’s two marquee sales fell short of expectations
Take four—Naples exhibition curators attribute a new quartet of works to Artemisia Gentileschi
Organisers of Gallerie d’Italia show have given full attributions to four works on loan from public and private collections in the US and UK
Was a Vienna auction's €6,000 'copy' of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling actually by Michelangelo?
My heart-stopping research saga to find out if Dorotheum’s part-painted cartoon by a "follower" was in fact a sleeper
Following his arrest in Italy, Old Master forgery suspect Giuliano Ruffini is turned over to French authorities
After seven years of investigations, Ruffini has been handed over to French authorities, likely setting the stage for a trial in Paris
Brexit woes contribute to slim Old Master sales in London
Nonetheless, buoyed by the Grasset collection, Sotheby's posted its best results in six seasons and Christie's sale was up 26% up on last December
Old Masters need reinventing to avoid being frozen out
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
Damaged Salvator Mundi copy by unknown artist sells for €1m at Christie's
Dated to a century after Leonardo's death, the work does not come from the artist's studio
From a Dutch Golden Age still-life to a Nobel Prize medal: our pick of the highlights from December's sales
Plus, a Modernist landscape by Ferdinand Hodler and a sumptuous Old Masters Madonna
In time for Christmas: London's National Gallery unveils newly-restored Piero della Francesca nativity scene
Painstaking restoration of Italian master’s revered painting reveals its full glory once more
Did Leonardo da Vinci's studio produce two Salvator Mundis in parallel?
Martin Clayton, the Royal Collection Trust's head of prints and drawings presented his research at a major conference in Leipzig
Suspected Old Master forger Giuliano Ruffini—wanted by French police—cannot be found
The French dealer, who is under investigation for selling a series of allegedly forged paintings, has had a warrant out for his arrest since 2019
Five years since the $450m Salvator Mundi sale: a first-hand account of the nonsensical auction
At the record-breaking sale at Christie's New York on 15 November 2017, the audience gasped and whooped as if they were at a very exclusive firework display
Oil sketch in Dutch museum could be by Rembrandt, says art historian
The work, housed at The Hague's Museum Bredius, will now undergo further study by Rijksmuseum experts
How did a clergyman come to own hundreds of Edward Hopper works? We delve into the Whitney's archive controversy
Plus, a horror show in London and a Flemish masterpiece in Bruges
Divorcing collectors to sell Old Masters trove at Sotheby’s in New York, led by $25m early Rubens
Ten works from the collection of Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson will be on offer during the Master’s Week sales in January
A painting marketed as 'by Titian'—but also attributed to his workshop—will be offered at Sotheby's in December for £8m
The work, which could become the second-most expensive by the painter at auction, failed to sell in 1998
Frieze Masters turns ten: we look at fair’s milestone moments and predict its future
Van Dyck or copies? The curious case of the socialite, the scholar and the Old Masters
Plus, Joan Mitchell and Claude Monet at the Fondation Louis Vuitton and England's Tudors head to New York
Old Master upgrades: how dealer James Stunt's ‘sleepers’ became autograph Van Dycks worth millions
Georgina Adam and Mark Hollingsworth investigate a troubling case of serial reattributions, showing how easily scholarly “opinion” translates into financial fact