Art History

Hyperallergic -  In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” fetched $450.3 million at a Christie’s auction, becoming the most expensive artwork ever sold. This week, a 500-year-old copy of the work, likely p...

Smithsonian Magazine -  I will never forget the startling moment when I pulled Frida Kahlo’s (1907–1954) tiny, tin-framed painting, Survivor, out of a dirty, unlabeled cardboard box stacked in a closet in an un...

The Art Newspaper- A still life of poppies which has been hidden away in storage for 30 years at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut has been authenticated, we can announce. Specialist...

Artsy -  After an extended, five-person battle at Sotheby’s London Friday, Jenny Saville became the world’s most expensive living female artist when her painting Propped (1992) sold at the house’s New Bond Stre...

The Art Newspaper - Among the celebrated painters of 16th-century Venice, Tintoretto was the most Venetian. Jacopo Robusti (around 1518-94), nicknamed “the little dyer” after his father’s cloth-dying trade, is ...