We know that the Old Masters like Botticelli, da Vinci or Rembrandt used to add animal proteins, such as egg yolk, to their paints, to modify their properties and allow more sophisticated paint ...

As the Princeton University Art Museum undergoes renovations, its old master paintings remain behind closed doors. Still, even in storage, such works are the inspiration behind a new show, which ...

While growing up in Springfield, Eliza Moser said she yearned to understand and perfect the technique of Old Masters painting — but she couldn’t find people to teach her in Massachusetts. “I had to go ...

A quartet of paintings by Italian female Old Masters—all newly rediscovered—are hitting the auction block at Dorotheum in Vienna. Cavallino is a significant name in his own right, with a $3.9 million ...

Who doesn’t know Salvador Dalí’s famous painting popularly known as “Melting Clocks” or “Soft-Watches” — painted and titled by the artist “The Persistence of Memory” in 1931, I ask rhetorically? This ...

What’s the very latest flight of fancy on Manhattan’s fluttery gallery row? Rembrandt’s The Night Watch. Rembrandt’s The Night Watch? That’s right, along with Titian, Fragonard and Van Dyck. As ...

Earlier this year, at a Christie's Old Masters evening sale in London, Canaletto's Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day (circa 1732) set a new auction record after it sold for $43.7 ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Chalk artists are creating masterpieces at the 37th i Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival. Street painters known as Madonnari in Italy started created their works of art ...

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 ...

A philosopher interested in public life can learn from how the popular media handle issues of art and morality. I read with interest now and then Slipped Disc, a web site devoted to gossip about the ...

Each artist left behind their own distinctive mark on the painting, now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National ...