There were some rather strong and encouraging prices achieved in last night's Maîtres Anciens : Peintures - Dessins - ...

This rather finely painted Lute Player by Nicolas Tournier, plucking what I can see is a rather nicely detailed 10-course ...

News from Italy that Caravaggio's Portrait of Maffeo Barberini has gone on display at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. Maffeo, ...

The National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket, Norfolk, has acquired a Portrait of Charles II. The King is of great significance to Newmarket, as it was he who founded much of the stables and course ...

In case you didn't manage to make it to the Art Gallery of Ontario's (AGO) recent two-day conference entitled Many Lives: Picture Frames in Context, the art gallery has published recordings of all the ...

The final event of my book tour this year will be at the Wallace Collection in London, on Friday 6th December, 6.30pm. Tickets are available here - hope to see some AHNers there!

Edward Town, curator at the Yale Center for British Art, has shared some interesting new research undertaken on this very ...

Hever Castle in Kent, one of the former homes of Anne Boleyn, have acquired and redisplayed a portrait of Thomas Cromwell. The acquisition had caused some conflicting feelings for assistant curator Dr ...

The Musei Capitolini in Rome will be opening a new temporary exhibition of six masterpieces on loan from the Pinacoteca Civica di Ancona later this November. The works will include paintings by Titian ...

Maurizio Cattelan’s aforementioned Comedian realised an impressive $6.2m (all figures include commission) over its $1m - ...

A quick reminder that the Royal Academy's winter exhibition, entitled Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504, has just opened in London. It will run until 16th February 2025.

Regular readers of AHN will remember the ongoing story relating to the attempts by Highland Council to sell off a bust of Sir John Gordon by Bouchardon which was discovered in their collection back in ...