Articles in Painting

In the world's first speculative stock bubble, farmers exchanged their farms for a single tulip bulb in the Netherlands.

Over the weekend, three paintings, including works by Anthony van Dyck and Annibale Carracci, were stolen from Oxford University's Christ Church Picture Gallery.

An emblematic master of Dutch Golden Age painting, Rembrandt’s varied production cycled through many genres, from portraits to landscapes, myths and history. While his raw style was once belittled, it now attracts the interest, and high prices, of collectors all around the world.

Artemisia Gentileschi was one of the first female painters to emerge in the art world. Here, we look back on her artistic talent and early feminist advocacy with five facts about her extraordinary career.

It’s been just two months since the record for the most expensive work by Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka was made, and now the London sale of another portrait is likely to topple it.

Sotheby's has announced the sale of Madonna of the Rosary, a monumental painting by the Venetian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, a giant of the Rococo movement who was renowned for his frescos.

Five major paintings, including works by Hans Holbein the Elder and Frans Hals, were returned to Germany's Friedenstein Castle 41 years after their theft.

Jaime Botín, Spanish billionaire and former vice president of Santander bank, was sentenced last Tuesday for trying to illegally export a Picasso painting estimated at $29 million.

A painting that appeared to be Gustav Klimt's “Portrait of a Lady”, which disappeared 23 years ago, was found last December in an alcove of its museum. Now, the prosecutor has confirmed that it was indeed the masterpiece of the Austrian painter.   

At the end of January, Sotheby's will auction a suggestive work by the Dutch baroque painter Jan Lievens, in which Lievens' colleague Rembrandt served as the model.

The Minister of Culture has refused to issue an export certificate for The Derision of Christ by Cimabue, which became the most expensive pre-Renaissance painting last October, and is targeting its acquisition by a French museum.

The suspect who reportedly ‘ripped’ Picasso’s ‘Bust of a Woman’ has been charged with criminal damage.

Another year of major auction sales has finished, so here are the priciest artworks auctioned in 2019, from a painting by record-setting pop artist Ed Ruscha to an iconic work by the father of Impressionism.

Having disappeared over 22 years ago, Portrait of a Lady by Gustav Klimt was found by a gardener in the most unexpected location: in an alcove outside of the museum from which it was stolen.

Artcurial's upcoming sale features unique art works, including an iconic Paul Gauguin painting from his time in Tahiti and a Mary Cassatt masterpiece.

A portrait of Lucretia by Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi that was recently rediscovered in a French collection will be on sale at Artcurial on November 13 and is expected to fetch up to $900,000.

"Charing Cross Bridge", one of the many works in the London series by Claude Monet, will be sold at Sotheby's in November with an estimate of $20-30 million. 

A painting by the early Renaissance master had hung in a French kitchen for 40 years until it was recently authenticated. Now it is the the first work by Cimabue to go to auction.

A portrait of Lucretia by Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi that was recently rediscovered in a French collection will be on sale in Paris in November. 

A large-scale painting by Banksy titled Devolved Parliament, depicting the British House of Parliament as monkeys, is expected to fetch up to $2.5 million at Sotheby's next month.

The last privately owned portrait by Sandro Botticelli will be for sale at London's upcoming Frieze art fair next month with a price tag of $30 million.

A painting that had been stolen from a Ukrainian art museum by the Nazis in 1941 was consigned to a Virginia auction house two years ago when its true nature was discovered.

Sophisticated technology has revealed preparatory sketches under the masterpiece The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci, which will be the centerpiece of an upcoming exhibit at the National Gallery London.

From Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' to Van Gogh's 'Starry Night', here are the locations of the world's most famous artistic masterpieces.