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A headline-grabbing newly rediscovered masterpiece by Baroque painter Guercino will go on public display at Waddesdon Manor.

Driven by a sexual assault and sick trial, 17th-century artist, Artemisia Gentileschi, used her canvases to redefine the role of women in the Renaissance.

Galleria Spada, a museum located near Campo de Fiori in central Rome, hosts a sumptuous art collection of works by masters such as Caravaggio and Guercino, as...

Just in time for the holidays, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the signing of a transformative gift agreement that will bring more than 200 works of Renaissance and Baroque art to the Museum from the Dick Wolf Collection. Assembled over many years by the California-based collector, these works will enrich the holdings of three curatorial departments (European Paintings, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, and Drawings and Prints), making this one of the landmark promised...

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The opening chorus of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio represents High Baroque splendour at its most electrifying. On Sunday night, it was a spectacular launch for...

Dulwich Picture Gallery reveals how Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens painted women as ‘active agents of their own destiny‘.

It helps you make art using a stencil, ink and a squeegee

A new podcast documents a quest to recover a Caravaggio painting likely stolen by the mafia from an Italian church in 1969.

OPINION I’m a Kiwi comedian and I reckon I can help improve New Zealand’s GDP . We need to think beyond dairy and beef and export-quality fleece. Sure, those...