The little drawing sold for $27.2 million at a Christie’s sale on Thursday after the auction house identified Michelangelo as the artist responsible.

A bitter dispute is unfolding between Baroness Ariane de Rothschild and her 93-year-old mother-in-law, Baroness Nadine de Rothschild, over a priceless private art collection. The conflict centers on ...

One man’s garage junk is now an art historian’s treasure. A dusty painting sitting under a garage workbench just traded places — straight into the Renaissance big leagues with a price tag fit for a ...

A Renaissance painting found underneath a garage workbench has sold for more than half a million pounds at an auction house in Banbury. In a 15-minute bidding battle at JS Fine Art auctioneers, a ...

What’s old is new again in a special exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art connecting Italian early modern art with contemporary fashions from Versace, Armani, Ferragamo and others. Hoop skirts, ...

What makes “Renaissance to Runway” feel so alive is its sense of continuum. The exhibition doesn’t relegate the Renaissance to a gilded past; it threads it directly into our present. The fabrics, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. The Pontifical Swiss Guard will continue to wear the colorful ...

A 16th-century engraving of a rhinoceros with scaly skin emerges as part-lizard, part-beast. A witchy woman and a suspicious horse peer at a man, mysteriously lying dead on the ground. Tree trunks ...

Antonio Solario's 'Madonna and Child', a long-sought after Italian Renaissance masterpiece has finally returned home to the Civic Museum of Belluno after more than 50 years. But, in order for it to ...

Installation view of Spora at the Swiss Institute featuring art by Li Tavor (courtesy Swiss Institute; all other photos Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic) Exhibitions that double as interventions in an ...

The Swiss edition of Art Basel was once a must-attend art world event. Now it faces formidable challenges — including from its own Paris offshoot. By Scott Reyburn Reporting from Basel, Switzerland ...

Each artist left behind their own distinctive mark on the painting, now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National ...