The exhibition features works from important institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and private ...

Several years ago, the owners of an old, dusty painting walked into an art gallery in Vienna. They presented experts with a ...

The oil sketch “Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg ... “I feel sure that it never belonged to the famous set in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch,” he said in a letter ...

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The Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg, part of a collection of 37 oil sketches painted in the 17th century, was stolen in 1951 from Boughton House, the home of the Duke of Buccleuch and ...

Dr. Hale traced the sale of the picture less than a year later to an art dealer in New York, before it moved on to a second dealer by March 1955, who had it cleaned and cradled. It was then sold ...

Credit: The Met / Public Domain Venus de’ Medici is one of the more recent examples among the most famous statues of Aphrodite. It was created in the first century BC and is thought to be a marble ...