Another tourist had an epileptic fit in front of the artist's Venus in 2016

Exhibition of Europe’s greatest female Old Master will include museum's freshly conserved acquisition

Christie's and Sotheby's sell near identical Van Dyck portraits of Princess Mary, and new records are set for Frans Hals and a jolly Judith Leyster

Half of movable works by Renaissance master included in St Petersburg show

Tis the season for Old Masters: here are three works to seek out, from a mythological marriage portrait to Annibale Carracci's sketch on an old account book

More than 30 conservators will treat paintings and sculptures, seven years after French culture ministry halted reckless cleaning of two panels

Move brings Dutch and New York art fairs in line with each other

Pair of portraits by Frans Hals expected to lead two-day sale of collection of Dutch entrepreneur, who was advised by the dealer Robert Noortman

Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio shows three paintings confirmed as one original work by recent conservation

Sixteenth-century painting of Christ on the cross was rushed immediately for conservation

Accademia Carrara’s curator Giovanni Valagussa explains how he put “two and two” together

First major UK exhibition of Spanish artist aims to show how his brutal realism was informed by classicism

Denver Art Museum's exhibition of the Old Master's prints looks at how he intentionally made “rarities” for his collectors

The female Italian Baroque artist's depiction of Lucretia is thought to have been in European collection since the 19th century

The work, lent by Art Gallery of Ontario ahead of a major travelling show on the artist, will undergo research at the Rubenshuis

The events that led up to the ruling in favour of the Norton Simon Museum after it was sued by the heir of Dutch dealer Jacques Goudstikker over ownership of the paintings

New technology is shedding light on an Old Master as the prolific, multi-talented artist enjoys a renaissance

Decision should put decade-long legal battle between museum and heirs of art dealer Jacques Goudstikker "to rest"

Tacca's Hercules is star of the bronzes, while Carracci's military portrait and Rembrandt's print find favour where Rubens's daughter flounders in £31.1m sale

No big hitters, but overall quality and new buyers from Asia and Latin America buoyed £42.6m auction, with £5.3m record for Canova set in day sale

Veteran Old Master dealer will join the auction house in New York at the end of the summer, months after selling his inventory there

Munich museum has undergone a four-year €12m renovation

Maurizio Seracini concurs that the painting sold by Sotheby’s in 2012 is a modern forgery

From a Van Dyck once thought to be by Rubens to William Nicholson's portrait of an actress identified only weeks ago

Dutch museum will remove yellowed varnish from Van der Weyden's The Lamentation of Christ

The Descent from the Cross is the museum's first acquisition backed by the Marguerite and Robert Hoffman Fund, a hefty $17m endowment

The Accademia Carrara in Bergamo has re-attributed the 15th-century work Resurrection of Christ

How to bring new audiences to older art displays

Museum’s restoration lifts “grey veil” from final commission by the Renaissance artist Moretto da Brescia

The 17th-century work, a depiction of Christ as a child, could set a new artist record in June