A missing masterpiece of 18th-century painting, lost for more than 100 years, has apparently been hanging in a Los Angeles home since the mid-1950s. Nicknamed “Española” — Spanish girl — after the ...

You may be expecting me, a lover of art, to express outrage over the latest botched art restoration job making headlines in recent weeks: a piece of upsetting work apparently perpetrated by a Spanish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plague swept through Italy’s southern Mediterranean coast in 1656, ravaging towns and villages in the kingdom of Naples. The ...

MADRIDMADRID — A painting whose auction in Spain was halted in 2021 on suspicion that it might be a Caravaggio has been confirmed as a work by the Italian Baroque master, Spain’s Prado Museum ...

In 1612 a court in Rome heard the testimony of Artemisia Gentileschi, a 19-year-old, in a case against a well-connected artist called Agostino Tassi. Tassi was her art tutor and her probable future ...

It was thought to be lost for more than 400 years. But then in 2024, French auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat uncovered the Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens’ “Christ on the Cross” during an inspection of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Valentin de Boulogne’s "Denial of Peter" is among the Baroque masterpieces on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg.

Scholars are set to undertake a "thorough technical and scientific study" of the painting, which was previously attributed to the circle of Spanish artist José de Ribera. Ansorena Last week, the ...

After a stopover in the U.S. that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany on Thursday. The FBI handed over the ...

Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church. Baroque art was propaganda — for the state or for the Church. It inspired the masses to believe that the authority of the prince and the ...

When it comes to adding some distinction to your home, few styles provide the dramatic touch that Baroque art does. Some designers use highly embellished, ornamental pieces to complete a room, while ...