In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...

Sotheby’s is to use masterpieces by artists including Picasso, Warhol and Rembrandt to back a $500m (£399m) bond. The auction house is bundling almost 90 personal loans given to art collectors ...

Rembrandt, Hansken, 1637 ... When she wasn’t engaged in the noble art of wielding a sword, she could be found picking spectator’s pockets.) Of course, this limited understanding of ...

For a time there was uncertainty as to whether the Mona Lisa in the Louvre was the actual painting by Leonardo da Vinci. In ...

One of Rembrandt's etchings is Self-Portrait, Wearing a Flat Cap, c. 1642 An exhibition of etchings by the 17th Century artist Rembrandt will go on show at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery later ...

“The entire life of the 400-year-old painting is becoming visible again ... which is the largest research and restoration project of Rembrandt’s masterpiece to date. And it is all being ...

Home to one of the largest public collections of Chihuly's art in the world, the downtown OKC museum closed "Chihuly Then and ...

Keep in mind that there are no Rembrandt paintings – only etchings – much to the chagrin of some recent museumgoers, though there are paintings by Rembrandt's contemporaries, such as Pieter ...

A man sticks his head out of a window. On the sill below him, a tiny leaf threatens to fall. This painting by Rembrandt’s most successful pupil Samuel van Hoogstraten is the centrepiece of a new ...

How do you discuss Rembrandt's paintings in your book? Historically, studies of the transatlantic slave trade in early modern painting (about 1400-1700) have looked at paintings that directly ...