Painters have learnt by copying works in the museum for centuries. Now a group of high-profile contemporary artists have been ...

A high-quality period copy of The Concert, by Velásquez, was among works fetching well over its estimate at Sotheby's this week. A copy of The Concert by Velásquez sold for a staggering £ ...

Versions of works by other Old Masters – the greats of pre-19th-century European art – such as Diego Velázquez and Correggio will also go under the hammer. Copies may be associated with art ...

The art form dates back to the 16th century in Italy. Itinerant artists, who called themselves Madonnaris, used the ground as their canvas to render outsized copies of Old Master paintings ...

This essay addresses the process by which experts determine an Old Master painting to be an autograph work or a copy by another hand. This process is described here, not by an art historian ...

But this week, the painting was reattributed to the French master himself—and will soon ... surface and discolored varnish pointed to a copy. “After Nicolas Poussin,” was the label of ...

breaking in through a window and swiping five Old Master paintings. More than 40 years later, reports Konstantin von Hammerstein for Der Spiegel, the missing masterpieces have finally been recovered.

A recently discovered painting by the 16th-century artist Lavinia Fontana being offered at a Sotheby’s Old Master sale on Thursday is thought to be a self-portrait of the artist painted while ...

That’s true at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has just opened “Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800,” a reinstallation of its core collection. It’s the art event of the year ...