The joys and hazards of buying at auction
Commissions add considerably to what you finally pay. Forming an old master collection need not necessarily be expensive and it is, happily, one
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Rembrandt, Old Master Superstar
Living in the Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish art. “Mom, does dad really need to be a painter?” In 1630 Rembrandt’s etched
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Where are the Women Old Masters?
One suggestion is that they are buried beneath a mountain of good and not so good male Old Masters; the truth is, female
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Planning your Museum Visit
DURING THE BOOM YEARS OF THE 1980-90s. there was a vast expansion in the size of art museums the world over. It ranged
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Collaborative Art
VERY FEW ARTISTS WHO VENTURE into the field of politics, be they ever so famous, emerge unscathed. The Greek sculptor Phidias (c.480 –
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Caravaggio: mad, bad, and dangerous to know
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous Artists THAT MOURNFUL PHRASE, uttered by Lady Caroline Lamb to describe her spasimante Lord George Byron is one, had
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Travels with My Art
SHIPPING YOUR PAINTINGS if you are an artist exhibiting your work at a gallery some distance from your home or even abroad can
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Rembrandt’s Dark Secrets
Art historians – perennially on the outside looking in – have, starting with Giorgio Vasari in 1550, loved to give the Old Masters
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Caring for your Paintings
Is your contemporary painting more temporary than you think? Is the title to an early 1960s art-conservation guide that has always amused the
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The Great Art Robbery
The siege of Jerusalem bas-relief in the Rome, Arch of Titus Andrea Mantegna 1486 – 1505 The Triumph of Caesar, Royal Collection Hampton
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