The early 18th century work by Nicolas de Largillierre, titled Portrait of a Woman, features an unknown woman with porcelain ...

Mural conservators are working to uncover 20 angels hidden under layers of paint for more than a century at the Boston church ...

Now, historians and conservators have peeled back years and layers of paint on the walls of the historical church, revealing ...

The angels were painted in the early 18th century but painted over in 1912 as part of a renovation of the Old North Church.

Aso O. Tavitian grew up poor — but at age 64 he began an ‘‘explosion of buying.” Under the radar, he amassed old masters, ...

BOSTON (AP) — Straddling the scaffolding high up in a historic Boston church, murals conservator Gianfranco Pocobene is ...

Think 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' is the tops? Think again. Here, we offer an entirely opinionated ranking of the best works ...

The cumulative value of the top ten auction lots sold in 2024 was $512.6 million. That was a 22.3 percent decline from 2023's ...

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was not just a great advisor to art collectors, but an accomplished artist in her own right.

This grand assemblage of exotic finery is, in fact, a fantasy, brought together by the curator Thierry Morel in A Cabinet of ...

The very first carousels date back to about 1600 in France, where they were created as a device to train young noblemen in ...

Chess, like most discernible parts of human society, saw its usage affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, in this ...