The 71st edition of one of the world’s oldest art fairs will run from 25 January until 1 February, showing Old Master and ...

A new study suggests that pointing fingers in Old Master paintings generate entire webs of association in viewers' minds.

One of the most common human gestures, the pointing finger, appears frequently in Old Master paintings as a guiding cue. However, its influence on viewers' gaze has never been systematically ...

“What always fascinates me is the narrative potential of art,” said Emanuela Tarizzo, the new director of London’s prestigious Frieze Masters fair, which brings together art and collectibles from ...

Christie’s closed their London Classic week with a combined total of £60,844,240 ($83,660,83) between the Old Masters Evening Sale and The Exceptional Sale. Guy Bell Throughout history, in times of ...

Jan van Kessel the Elder. Noah’s Family Assembling Animals Before the Ark, c. 1660 oil on panel. Photograph courtesy of The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland The National Gallery of Art and the ...

I meet the Old Masters dealer Ben Hall at his private Upper East Side gallery and office, which sits in a five-story limestone-faced townhouse, as befits a dealer in venerable paintings. Most of the ...

Rembrandt Harmenzoon van Rijn was into selfies — really into them. In fact, it could be said that Rembrandt perfected the selfie several centuries before social media influencers came onto the scene.

A new painting has slipped ever so quietly into the Old Master galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. No press releases trumpeted its coming and no camera crews, drawn to a record price tag, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Old Master painting sales will try to lure choosier buyers this month with lower price estimates as Christie's and Sotheby's auction houses adjust to a global art market dulled by ...

As the old master art world has shrunk in prominence in recent years, the trend has been countered by the creative vitality of an institution that may have seemed least likely to harbor new ...

When renowned Old Masters art dealer Marco Voena was interviewed in 2022 by blueblooded Fiat heir Alain Elkann, he spoke of the way newly created wealth in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa had ...