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 [...]

Hans van Meegeren (1889-1947), Procuress (after Dirck van Baburen) Circa 1940. Oil on canvas, height: 98.7 cm; width: 103.9 cm A painting that supposedly was made by Hans van Meegeren, one of the most notable forgers of all time, dates, from the XVII Century and might have even hung in Johannes Vermeer’s house, according to [...]

Japanese museums will withdraw from exhibition three paintings purported to be by Marc Chagall because of claims that they are forgeries. The Marc Chagall Committee, a Paris-based group authorized to authenticate work by the Franco-Russian artist, has told the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo that the paintings attributed to Chagall in a recent exhibition [...]