Market A Lost Cimabue Masterpiece Found Hanging in an Elderly French Woman’s Kitchen Sold for a Stunning $26.8 Million The Medieval painting was spotted above the stove where it had been hanging for years. By Naomi Rea, Oct 28, 2019
Art & Exhibitions The Prado’s Second Exhibition Dedicated to Female Artists—Ever—Tells the Story of Two Old Masters Who Were Famous and Then Forgotten Feminist art historians paved the way for the exhibition, which looks at Lavinia Fontana and Sofonisba Anguissola. By Javier Pes, Oct 26, 2019
Art World Want to Look More Attractive in Photos? Take a Cue From the Renaissance and Stand Contrapposto, a New Study Says Artists intuited this a long time ago, the scientist behind the study explains. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 25, 2019
Art World Researchers Tested a 500-Year-Old Bridge Concept by Leonardo to See If His Revolutionary Design Would Work. It Did Had it been built, the Renaissance master’s design would have been the longest bridge in the world ten times over. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 22, 2019
Law & Politics An Italian Court Rules Once and for All to Allow Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Vitruvian Man’ to Travel to the Louvre, Ending Years of Legal Wrangling The upcoming Louvre retrospective marks the 500th anniversary of the artist's death. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 17, 2019
Art & Exhibitions After Her Trip to Another Gallery Sowed Chaos, Mona Lisa Is Back in Her Home at the Louvre—Only It’s Gotten a Complete Makeover Leonardo's famous masterwork will now be backdropped by midnight blue walls. By Sarah Cascone & Naomi Rea, Oct 7, 2019
On View A Marvelous New Exhibition Argues That Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mentor, Deserves Far More Credit Than He Gets The show makes a splendid case for the overlooked master. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 29, 2019
Art World The MFA Houston Just Bought a Long-Lost Delacroix Painting That Popped Up in a Paris Apartment Th Romantic painter made three versions of his the famed scene. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 26, 2019
Art World Want the Sistine Chapel All to Yourself? A Travel Company Is Pricing Private Tours at $5,558 Per Person Here's your chance to see Michelangelo's famed fresco without every tourist in Rome breathing down your neck. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 26, 2019
Auctions An Elderly Woman Discovered She Had Been Storing a Rare Renaissance Painting in Her Kitchen—and It Could Fetch $6 Million at Auction Next Month The 13th-century painting hung over a hot plate in the home of a 90-year-old woman. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 24, 2019
On View See 46 Extraordinary Michelangelo Drawings That Were Missing From the Met’s Blockbuster Show—But Are Now Coming to Cleveland The works come from the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden and are borrowed from the Teylers Museum in the Netherlands. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 22, 2019
On View An Obscure Portrait of St. Jerome, Purchased for $600 at a Small-Town Auction, Is Actually a Rare Anthony van Dyck Painting The painting is the subject of an exhibition at the Albany Institute of History & Art. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 19, 2019
Art World The Amsterdam Museum Drops the Term ‘Golden Age,’ Arguing That It Whitewashes the Inequity of the Period The term doesn’t account for the “poverty, war, forced labor, and human trafficking” that occurred during the era, the museum's curator says. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 13, 2019
Law & Politics European Police Are Making Arrests in a String of High-Profile Old Master Forgeries of Cranach, El Greco, and Others An Italian artist has been arrested under suspicion of painting a fake El Greco connected to the Old Master forgery ring. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 13, 2019
Auctions Sotheby’s Shareholders Overwhelmingly Approve the Company’s $3.7 Billion Acquisition by French Media Mogul Patrick Drahi CEO Tad Smith called it an historic moment for the 275-year-old auction house. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 5, 2019
