In a stunning decision, a California judge has decided in favor of the Norton Simon Museum, dismissing a claim made by Marei von Saher, the heir of Dutch collector Jacques Goudstikker, for Adam and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director General of the Dresden State Art Collections (SKD) Bernd Ebert examines the portrait of Elector Frederick the Wise by ...

Looks can be deceiving. Peer into the woman’s cool gray eyes and there’s no telling that for 400 years she held the severed head of John the Baptist on a silver platter. Her expression is equanimous, ...

PARIS (AP) - Like an enterprising Andy Warhol of the 16th century, German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder produced multiple paintings of the same subject, churning out strikingly similar ...

After a three-year-long restoration project, Lucas the Elder’s iconic 16th-century panels are back on view at the Los Angeles museum. Cranach was a court painter for the Electors of Saxony in ...

When Old Greenwich resident Maryan Ainsworth, curator of European painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was given her turn to take charge of the museum's "changing focus" Gallery 264, she chose ...

After 2½ years of rigorous, sometimes hair-raising effort, the conservation studio at the J. Paul Getty Museum has completed work on one of the key treasures of European art in Los Angeles. Lucas ...

On Christmas in 1521, a former priest in peasants’ clothing delivered such an incendiary homily that, one cold and clear night shortly after, the churches of that red-roofed, gothic town would be ...