An analysis of the auction market’s resurgent interest in the Old Masters and in young artists reinventing the classics. Sellers of fine artworks by European Old Masters have spent the past several ...

Aso O. Tavitian grew up poor — but at age 64 he began an ‘‘explosion of buying.” Under the radar, he amassed old masters, leaving 331 to the Clark. How did he do it? Renaissance masterworks from the ...

While growing up in Springfield, Eliza Moser said she yearned to understand and perfect the technique of Old Masters painting — but she couldn’t find people to teach her in Massachusetts. “I had to go ...

The first-ever exhibition on Europe’s most important early female painter, Catharina van Hemessen, will open later this year in Antwerp and come to London in 2027. It starts at the Snijders&Rockox ...

We know that the Old Masters like Botticelli, da Vinci or Rembrandt used to add animal proteins, such as egg yolk, to their paints, to modify their properties and allow more sophisticated paint ...

Paintings from before 1850, once a bedrock of the market, now account for just a tiny percentage of auction sales. Instead, buyers want works by living artists with a strong Instagram presence. By ...