London's National Gallery buys mysterious altarpiece for $20m

Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor

Executed Chinese prisoners likely used in 'Real Bodies' exhibition (2021)

Court of Appeal ruling will prevent UK museums from charging reproduction fees

The 'biggest art fraud in history'

Juan de Pareja: from Diego Velázquez’s slave to distinguished artist

Solar panels disguised as terracotta tiles in Pompeii

Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing

Full image of ‘new’ Vermeer with uncovered Cupid released by Dresden museum

Catholic church's proposed redesign of Notre Dame interior provokes outrage

Unknown Dürer drawing bought for $30 at a house clearance could sell for $50m

Archaeologists discover 4k-year-old ancient city in Iraqi desert

Van Gogh Sketches Discovered

Van Gogh hiding at the back of a Toulouse-Lautrec drawing

High school student leads archaeologists to lost Inca settlement

Ghent Altarpiece: latest phase of restoration unmasks 16th century overpainting

Fifty years since Caravaggio’s Nativity was stolen in Palermo

Notre Dame: a blow-by-blow account of the restoration process

The 'last Botticelli'?

Notre Dame is unstable: a strong wind could make the walls collapse, report says

Hidden Cupid resurfaces in one of Vermeer’s best-known works

Serial art thief arrested again

British Museum realises 'vase' is in fact an ancient mace-head upside down

British Library to put George III's map collection online