Visitors view Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Irises’ at the Getty centre. Photo: REUTERS
A spokesman for the Paul Getty Trust said its investment portfolio fell to $4.5 billion in the second half of 2008, down from $6 billion the previous year.

Ludovico Carracci (1555–1619) and his two cousins, the brothers Agostino (1557–1602) and Annibale (1560–1609) Carracci, together brought about a revolution in the study and practice of painting that forever changed the history of art. The repercussions on European painting—a measured classicism and the expression of genuine emotion that characterized Baroque art—lasted for the next 250 [...]

The British have been in a bit of a froth ever since the Duke of Sutherland announced he needed to sell a pair of Titian masterpieces, with a Dec. 31 deadline set for “Diana and Actaeon.” The National Gallery of Scotland, where the picture has been on loan since 1945, and London’s National Gallery have [...]