Art superintendent Rossella Vodret illustrates some detail of the painting at the center of the latest Caravaggio mystery, after the Vatican newspaper first suggested and then denied that the canvas was the work of the Italian master, in Rome, Italy, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The “Martyrdom of St. Lawrence” would now be examined to ascertain [...]

Henry Moore’s Large Divided Oval: Butterfly in Berlin Henry Moore’s heaviest bronze sculpture, Large Divided Oval: Butterfly, has been restored in Berlin. Weighing nearly nine tons, it was his final major work, completed just before he died in 1986. Butterfly stands in the middle of a circular basin, outside the entrance to Berlin’s House of [...]

Leonardo DaVinci, La Belle Ferroniere Leonardo da Vinci: Painter At The Court Of Milan is said by the gallery to be the most complete display of Leonardo’s rare surviving paintings ever held. The Trafalgar Square gallery is borrowing works including La Belle Ferroniere from the Louvre museum in Paris, the Madonna Litta (also known as [...]

Detail from Edvard Munch’s Madonna The controversial artwork, in Munch’s famous swirling style, had been estimated to fetch £500,000 to £700,000 at Bonhams Prints sale in London. Bonhams said that as well as setting a UK record, the image was also the second most expensive print to be sold in the world. Another Munch work, [...]

The Virgin Mary is seen from the artwork “The Virgin on the Rocks” by Leonardo da Vinci (1491-1508), at the National Gallery in London July 14, 2010. An 18-month project to restore Leonardo da Vinci’s “Virgin of the Rocks” revealed the Renaissance artist likely painted the entire work himself rather than, as previously thought, with [...]

Employees pose for photographers on an early Victorian private coach capable of transporting around ten people at Christie’s South Kensington in London. The carriage was auctioned in the Althorp Attic Sale, and is one of the carriages among the highlights of selection of works from Althorp and Spencer House, the historic London home of the [...]

Attributed to Diego Velazquez, The Education of the Virgin, ca. 1617–18. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery. Based on the research of John Marciari, currently Curator of European Art and Head of Provenance Research at the San Diego Museum of Art and formerly the Nina and Lee Griggs Associate Curator of Early European Art [...]