How the Old Masters painted animals: dragonfly wings and butterfly dust. A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

Old Masters Paintings at the University of Wyoming offers a selection of European, British, and American studio paintings from 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Studio portraits, easel paintings of ...

NEW YORK — Buyers pounced on Old Master paintings this week with a determination that has not been witnessed at auction in a long time. Two reasons combined to account for what felt at times ...

Old master Hercules Segers gets a re-evaluation at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, including six new paintings attributed to him.

In 1998 George Wachter, chairman and co-worldwide head of Old Master paintings at Sotheby’s, heard about a painting that had been pulled out of, well, a barn attic. “It was filthy, black ...

We know that the Old Masters like Botticelli, da Vinci or Rembrandt used to add animal proteins, such as egg yolk, to their paints, to modify their properties and allow more sophisticated paint ...

Art & Exhibitions ‘There Is a Desire to Shift the Gaze’: Meet the Artists Reimagining Old Masters Paintings to Challenge the Narratives of the Western Canon ...

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 ...

The paintings’ recovery cost about €50,000 ($55,000) in legal fees; the foundation, which regularly sponsors museum acquisitions, covered this amount in full.