Research project at the Stedelijk Museum sheds light on some of the artist’s techniques

We reveal the research and science behind the monograph exhibition exploring the Renaissance painter's artistic evolution

The project will be launched on the heels of the UN Climate Action Summit in New York

Exhibition at the Centre Pompidou focuses on the artist’s post-pope period, which has received less critical examination

Aim of Australian government’s war art scheme was to prioritise first-hand representations of the conflict

Work on the battle-scarred 39 sq. m Papal feast scene, housed in a monastery in Vicenza, should be completed by early 2021

We revisit our exclusive interview with the British artist. Plus, expert Martin Gayford tells us about Hockney, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and others in post-war London

The authors ask “What is Islamic about ‘Islamic’ art?”

A government grant for works of importance helps to block departure of the painting from the country

Artist’s works on iconoclasm in Mosul are currently on show at the Imperial War Museum in London

Works from the 19th-century helped construct a national identity in Denmark that is ripe for discussion now, says curator

The Victorian artist group explored the connections between art and scientific observation to enhance art’s moral purpose

Painted before Donald Trump disparaged the city, Derrick Adams's new works celebrate family life there

These notebooks reveal how the artist discovered the "real" Orient in North Africa and southern Spain and adjusted his paintings accordingly

The second Duke of Orléans’ assembly of his famous art collection may have been a covert preparation for seizing the throne of France

Part of the Wellington Collection in London, the picture was originally believed to be by a minor north Italian artist

Exhibition of marine paintings will be joined later this month by a survey of the artist's Civil War illustrations at Harvard Art Museums

A vivid account of the art arising from the experiences of the artist, George Plante

The Royal Academy of Arts' assistant curator Rebecca Bray talks us through five of the Finnish artist’s key works

Johnny Dewe Mathews on his exhibition of 1970s photographs at New Art Centre

The botanical illustrations of Alexander von Humboldt in poster form

Martin Lister enlisted his daughters Susanna and Anna because of the unreliability of the best professional engravers

No Chucky or Lord of the Flies in portraits by British and British-based artists

Largely overlooked postscript suggests surprise friendship between the Van Gogh brothers and the young Belgian

Unusual month-long display of recently restored work by Leonardo’s favourite and heir will be lent by the State Hermitage Museum

Almost unknown in Britain, his work was secretly amassed by Harry Hyams, the billionaire property developer

Latin American artists feature prominently in the collection of the Chilean supporter of women's rights

"I remember my mum painting cherry blossoms in the garden, when I was five or six—I think I ate some paint."

We take a sneak peek inside the British artist's studio to see him creating his Blossom paintings

Hirst has spent the past 18 months in his London studio painting cherry blossom and now, in an exclusive interview, he explains why this new body of work is a matter of life and death