The forgotten Old Master Michaelina Wautier comes roaring back in a sweeping exhibition at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.

A highly talked about painting will remain in the UK following a temporary stop to prevent it from leaving the country. The painting — which was created by an unknown artist — depicts the portraits of ...

Art history sleuths in Europe have determined that two separate portraits by a 17th-century Flemish artist actually belong together — and the two works of art have been reunited in a Danish museum. In ...

For years, a 17th-century portrait of a child hid on the back of a door in an English cottage that was crammed with antiques, rarely seen even by the eccentric collector who lived there. Now, ...

Conservators found that a portrait of aristocrat Diana Cecil had been modified to have larger lips and a smaller forehead long after the original was completed. English Heritage’s paintings ...

Helena Bonham Carter provides an English-language tour of the Rijksmuseum's miniature masterpiece, which stands at about six ...

Paintings by Edvard Munch, silverware by Pablo Picasso and a Banksy canvas are among the works on offer at an upcoming ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A 17th century portrait by Dutch-born painter Peter Lely of a semi-naked English royal mistress goes on sale in July with a price tag of up to two million pounds ($4 million).

In 17th century Amsterdam, Joanna Koerten (1650-1715) drew kings and scholars to her studio on Nieuwendijk Street. Her ...

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Together, they have reconstructed a day in Dutch domestic life during the 17th century. As dawn breaks, the household awakens ...