A cast-aside painting in the style of famed 17th century Dutch master Pieter Brueghel the Younger — which long hung hidden behind the door of a home in northern France — is the real deal.

There’s something weirdly comforting about seeing 17th-century oil paintings capture the same relationship drama we go ...

It took five years of verification and restoration to prepare the 1607 Caravaggio for auction. It is expected to go for $170 ...

The subject matter was a common classical trope – a mother ... “I have the honour to inform you that your painting dates indeed from the 17th century. However this painting is certainly ...

Pollution particles found in Young Woman seated at a Virginal, owned by the Rembrandt collector Thomas Kaplan, are helping to ...

has been identified as a rare and highly important 17th century masterpiece by Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens - a pupil of Peter Paul Rubens who dominated painting in Flanders in the mid-17th century.