Exemplifying the rare and magnificent lots offered in The Exceptional Sale on 1 July at Christie’s, a Union Jack Flown by HMS Spartiate at The Battle of Trafalgar will be a leading highlight during ...

Sandro Botticelli, born Alessandro di Mariano Filipe around the year 1445, spent the majority of his life living and working in Florence. He was very well known and celebrated during his lifetime and ...

O’Keeffe herself often commented that the colour and form of the flowers was more important than the subject matter, suggesting that she was interested in the natural form and capturing its beauty.

Image: The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci, Judas, Peter and John, fragment, Tongerlo Jean-Pierre Isbouts - one of National Geographic’s best-selling authors- has been studying and following Leonardo ...

A rare condom dating from 1830 will go on display at the Rijksmuseum on 3 June 2025. This almost 200-year-old contraceptive – probably made from a sheep’s appendix – features an erotic etching ...

Emergency services remain at the scene as they work to successfully extinguish the blaze, the Mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol said: "Start of fire in progress on the spire of the cathedral of ...

The artistic career of Gerhard Richter, born in 1932, began at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Already during his training, the talented student was greatly encouraged by his teacher Heinz Lohmar ...

Now, under the direction of Daniel Hug for over 16 years, ART COLOGNE continues to embrace its roots while adapting to an evolving market and cultural landscape. In this interview, Daniel Hug reflects ...

“I paint myself because I’m so often alone and because I am the subject I know best,” Frida Kahlo. Born and raised in Mexico to a German father and a Pacific Islander mother, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) ...

A Chinese appeals court upheld the initial ruling, ordering Ye to pay €650,000 in damages and issue an apology in China’s largest newspaper within ten days. Failure to do so could result in ...

Nine of the objects were recovered pursuant to an ongoing criminal investigation into Georges LOTFI, a prolific antiquities trafficker who is the subject of an international arrest warrant. The 12 ...

The painting "Aechmea fasciata with Books and Centennial Hall [Untitled]" (1926) by artist Oskar Moll (1875–1947) was most likely owned by Otto Wachenheim, a Jewish art collector who fled to the USA ...